Re: Desktop settings not recognized after upgrade from FC2 to FC6

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> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 14:48 -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
>> I just upgraded from FC2 to FC6, and when I logged in, I got errors
>> indicating that it couldn't recognize my Desktop directory, or the
>> contents therein.
>>
>> Any apps I had starting out of my startup folder, any icons that I had
>> on
>> my desktop, and a number of links in my toolbar, don't appear on my
>> desktop, now.
>>
>> Here is an ls -l showing my Desktop directory:
>>
>> drwx------  3 myid    myid        4096 Feb 13 11:55 Desktop
>>
>> The contents seem to be ok, i.e., the old things exist, but they don't
>> show up.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this, and what did you do to get around it?
>>
> On mine the permissiions are drwxr-xr-x which are different from yours.
> The lack of read and execute may be preventing the system from getting
> to the setup files.

That sounded plausible, so I changed the permissions...no go.

Tried renaming the Desktop directory, so that the system would create a
new one when I logged back in, still no go.

I suppose my next stop will be renaming the .kde directory.

Anyone have any other ideas?  This should not have been a problem.

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