Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:51:40 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I screwed up my home KDE files Message-ID: <200210071451.40871.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> References: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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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
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