From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 21:14: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B094F37B52B for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (surry-pool-238.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.238] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03779; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:14:41 +1000 From: Danny To: Bob Howard , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Problems with KDE desktop... Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:17:46 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <395D323A.9D74450A@fidelity.presys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070114195504.03614@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are yo maybe starting KDE as root because maybe the / partition has only 100mb or space and it can't create .kde/whatevrer ? should add a user then try launching kde But make sure you have created a symbolic link from /usr/home to /home On Sat, 01 Jul 2000, Bob Howard wrote: > List, > Sigh... I'm new to FreeBSD and now have installed three times, > once from FTP and twice from the newest power pack 4.0 > distribution. > > >From CD-ROM, booting from floppies, everything seems to go > just fine... when all complete and reboot into the system I > log on as user, then startx using KDE. When the desktop > appears I get the message: > > could not create ~/kde/share/apps/kfm/magic > > Stuff works in the root, but I know not to run there for > normal ops... even if not much more. > > Could someone please advise. > > Thanks, > > Bob H > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message