> I've had a problem with KDE apps for some time now. Everything is great > except my file dialogs appear as empty gray boxes with an X Window close > icon in the top right corner. No contents. This forces me to drag and > drop a file from Konqueror onto Kate. I have to download from the web > using Mozilla - Konqueror can't save. Can't select a desktop wallpaper. > It's pervasive. > > The problem showed up when I upgraded Mandrake 9.1 to kde 3.1.3 ~six weeks > ago. I installed 3.1.4 yesterday and the problem persists. I believe in > my attempts I have had QTDIR, KDEDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH set > correctly. I have QT 3.1.1 which is distributed with Mandrake 9.1. I think > I have all the prerequisites from the 'Compiling KDE 3.1.X' page. > Configure and make don't report any errors.
I found it and it surprised me. I'm launching kde with 'xinit /usr/bin/startkde' If you look at startkde you'll see that by default your personal kde directory is mapped to $HOME/.kde but can be overridden with $KDEHOME. I set it to $HOME/.kde3 before launching. Now all my dialogs are just fine. Just a few weeks. Learned a lot too. Cheers, Gord _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
