On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 15:39 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 10:41, Craig White wrote: > [...] > >---- > >Rex is your guy - he is after all, the kde-redhat guy. > > > >He told you to... > > > >> # rpm -V redhat-menus qt kdelibs kdebase > >> for starters. > >> > >> what does > >> # echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > >> say? > > > >Which sort of revels this. > > > >As user... > >$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > >/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg > > > >while as root... > ># echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > > > ># exit > > > Humm, so I set that, exported it, and ran kbuildsycoca, and magicly its > all back I think. Looks good to me anyway, all the stuff I was missing > seems to be back, the games are now properly sorted etc etc. > > So the msg I sent to Rex didn't have the magic twangers clues in it (I > don't think it did anyway, other than that env var being empty. > > It sounds like I should put that sequence into /etc/profile somehow. ---- actually, I rather suspect that since all users but root have that env set, that if your intent is to run kde as root, add it to root's env only like maybe /root/.bash_profile or /root/.bashrc Craig
