Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Yesterday, whilst building XFree86-4.0.2, my system went nutso after it
> finished (not yet installed). It turned out that my keyboard chose that time
> to give up the ghost.
>
> Anyway, before I realised what the problem was, I reinstalled kde-2.1,
> deleted my .kde directory, etc, trying to get things working again (it was
> really bizarre).
>
> I finally got things worked out but now am having problems with kde.
> Specifically, my desktop. CDROM, floppy, Zip, dos partition icons do not
> appear. When I create them (via create new) they don't work either. I
> create a new floppy device on my desktop, all the settings appear correct but
> when I select it, nothing happens. If, on the other hand, I open an xterm
> and go to /mnt/floppy, lo and behold, there is "stuff" there - the stuff on
> the inserted floppy.
>
> Same thing goes for CDROM. I can cd to the CDROM directory and navigate via
> xterm but creating a device on my desktop, it does nothing. Same for
> creating a new Home and Startup folder on my desktop.
>
> My trash icon also doesn't work. I can move items into the trash and it
> responds but 1)I cannot view what is in the trash by clicking on the trash
> icon, and 2)I cannot delete the damn trash icon to recreate it. So far the
> ONLY device/icon on my desktop that works is the Printer.
>
> All the devices that are created, even when by me the user, are owned by root.
>
> How do I make new home, startup, cdrom, etc items on my desktop so that they
> actually work?
Try: /usr/bin/update-menus -v and see if this corrects the problem.
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