From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 22:20:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB4837B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3550043E77 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-9.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.138]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g975KDL94489; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:50:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Tim Kellers Subject: Re: I screwed up my home KDE files Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:51:40 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: References: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210071451.40871.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 07 October 2002 00:24, Tim Kellers wrote: > Make sure that your (not root's) .kde directory (in your home directory) > is owned by you. Also check /tmp and make sure the ownership of all the > kde/X related files in there is correct. (kde-username, mcop-username, > etc) and, finally, make sure that (in your home directory) .DCOP*, .MCOP* > and .Iceauthority are also all owned by you. > > Sometimes the best solution for getting the /tmp/ files ownership correct > is to rm /tmp/* then rm /tmp/.* and rebooting. Just make sure there isn't > something important lurking in /tmp before you do that. Would you believe I already did that - I should have made that clear shouldn't I - sorry. Silly thing is that the info KDE needs to (eg) give me my 6 desktops IS there, but it won't use it unless I provide a trigger. It's weird. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message