Michael wrote: > 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 *think* that may have been a plasma update that caused that. Maybe. I did right click on a bunch of videos and had to select the player from the list. I didn't get the usual selection menu. It only happened once tho. When I tried again a few minutes later, it was back to normal. Kinda weird. >> 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. I been kinda busy, mostly trying to stomp on the XDG thing. I hadn't got around to playing with that yet. Given the log file seems normal, not high my my list right now. I got to take down a porch today. My sis-n-law is getting a new one put up tomorrow. I hope. If it doesn't rain him out. Speaking of. I'm about to head that way. Get started. Meds taken so hope this goes well. Dale :-) :-)
