"Eugene C. Zesch" wrote:

> > > Everything works normally now, except that when I'm logged into KDE as
> > > me, no icons & I can't execute programs - the panel & K menus are there,
> > >
> > > but only a few items (like logout) work. I can't open a terminal,
> > > refresh icons/desktop or anything. logging out & logging back in using
> > > gnome instead of KDE works (thats how I'm sending this) but I prefer
> > > KDE. Kde still works if I log in as root, just not as me!
> > >
> > > Well, I hate to admit it, but I don't even know where to start looking,
> > > so can someone please tell me what to do to get things back!
> > >
> > > Trevor
>
> Trevor,
>     I believe this can be cured by by going to your home directory
> /home/whatever/.kde/       and  renaming the folder /share.
> I usually rename it /share~
> When you restart KDE it will rebuild the folder and should work fine. If you
> dont see anything missing you can then delete the /share~
> You can do this from the Gnome file manager or the command line
> mv /home/whatever/.kde/share   /home/whatever/.kde/share~
>
> I usually just delete /share  but  if you have any kfm bookmarks you may want
> to save them, and if you rename it you can always rename it back.
>
> Hope this gets fixed in KDE2.0!
>
> Gene

Thanks Gene, I used Civileme's fix before i read yours, but next time <g> I'll
try that - it sounds better.

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