On Monday, 27 October 2025 12:41:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote:
> > Changing user from the user you login as may not preserve the original > > user's shell environment. > > > > My suggestion to re-emerge packages I thought would have some relevance to > > your problem would normally recreate any missing or corrupt files. If > > that doesn't help, then some more in depth expert troubleshooting would be > > required. > > I was about to re-emerge the programs and then I had a thought. I > clicked on the Konsole entry but I told it to ignore the root part, I > didn't type in the password. It opened as dale directly. I then > checked the environment to see what it shows. Check this out. > > > dale@Gentoo-1 ~ $ env | grep xdg > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/dale/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg > XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1 > XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma- > XDG_SEAT=seat0 > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 > XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE > XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 > XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user > XDG_VTNR=7 > XDG_SESSION_ID=39 > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share > dale@Gentoo-1 ~ $ > > > And there it is. So, either it was who I was running the command as or > at some point during this, it fixed itself. Well, notwithstanding all this round-trip on user env variables, some-thing must had gone sideways initially, when you were not able to see the content of your /home/$USER/ directory and your Kmenu was empty. I don't know ... > I might add, that large > sddm file problem I was having, it is sitting at about 23KBs right now. > It's been the same size for a couple days, since I logged in last time. > > I'm not sure what but I think something I did fixed it. I'm not sure > what did it tho. Either way, it appears to be set now. As a bonus, the > sddm file is normal again as well. > > Now I wonder. ;-) Did you change the mpv log verbosity to stop it spewing out unnecessary entries? Otherwise some media related update addressed whatever it was complaining about.
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