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?
Praedor....as root in a console, type:
chown -R praedor.praedor /home/praedor
then type:
update-menus -v
--
Alan
