On Friday 01 December 2006 10:41, Craig White wrote:
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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.
Thus the way kde is implemented, root user doesn't have an
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable and I am guessing that running kbuildsycoca as
root is a problem and shouldn't be done but then again, that's just
collateral since you probably shouldn't be running kde/gui as root
anyway.
No doubt that's the reasoning, thanks for the cluebat application, Craig.
Craig
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