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Date:      Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:17:46 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Bob Howard <rhoward@fidelity.presys.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems with KDE desktop...
Message-ID:  <00070114195504.03614@dannyh.freebsd.org>
References:  <395D323A.9D74450A@fidelity.presys.com>

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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
> 
> 
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