From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 16:21:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63AC537B43F for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11803; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA08297; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08293; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:21:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Andrew Gould Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: revisited - KDE not saving desktop settings In-Reply-To: <20010416211153.36348.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A better solution is to chown everything in Desktop and .kde to your username and group... that worked for me. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Andrew Gould wrote: > A while back, I posted a message about how KDE running > on FreeBSD 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 wouldn't save a normal > user's desktop. That is, the icons would appear in > the upper left corner each time KDE was started, even > though they had been moved in the previous session. > > A few people, who are also experiencing this problem, > have contacted me directly to see if a solution was > ever found. The answer, finally, is "yes" - update > the sources and install the port of KDE2. (and then > when you're tired of waiting for KDE2 to start, just > run kfm or other KDE apps from icewm!) > > Just wanted post a resolution to the problem for the > archives. > > Have a great day! > > Andrew Gould > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message