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kj5qw
27th December 2008, 10:16 AM
I had been running fc9 pretty much since it came out and overall have been happy with it. Here a week or two ago I decided I would install fc10 and to say the least has been a night-marish adventure. I pretty much had everything worked out and it was good until I noticed a few problems with the install when I would run kde apps in gnome. It seems the folder $HOME/.kde is empty? what? .......I installed kde from the install disk exactly as I had in f9. Why should the folder be empty. Needless to say by this time I had had enough so I decided to just put fc9 back on it since I had been running that without any real problems. Unfortunately after reloading fc9 I have exactly the same problem. Could it be something in the updates? The folder owner seems to have been assigned to the root so I changed the owner and permissions back to me but that really doesn't help since none of the required files are present.

I would appreciate any help if anyone knows or has seen a similar issue and may have some insight into any options I might have in correcting this issue.

kj5qw
27th December 2008, 06:20 PM
I managed to correct the problem myself. Seems the folder was assigned to the root for some reason. Corrected the problem by entering this.....

[root@kj5qw joe]# chmod 775 /home/joe/.kde
[root@kj5qw joe]# chown joe /home/joe/.kde
[root@kj5qw joe]# chmod 775 /home/joe/.kde/share
[root@kj5qw joe]# chown joe /home/joe/.kde/share
[root@kj5qw joe]# chmod 775 /home/joe/.kde/share/config
[root@kj5qw joe]# chown joe /home/joe/.kde/share/config
[root@kj5qw joe]# chmod 775 /home/joe/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
[root@kj5qw joe]# chmod 775 /home/joe/.kde/share/config/profilerc
[root@kj5qw joe]# chown joe /home/joe/.kde/share/config/*

Once the last line was entered the folder populated. I guess they were there, just hidden from view.

It seems to work ok now.