On 05/08/2011, at 10:27 AM, Monika Szulc wrote: > I have recently installed MacPorts and among other things kde. I was trying > to use neuroscope, but received the following error message > > Will not save configuration. > Configuration > file "/Users/UserName/.kde/share/config/neuroscoperc" not writable > > the file .kde is owned by root and has permissions 700 > > Can I change the ownership to the admin and also the permissions so that it's > writable? > ~/.kde (or $HOME/.kde) on a Linux system would be where KDE 3 applications and libraries keep your personal config, preferences, what you were doing last time, etc. It would definitely have the same ownership as /Users/UserName (or $HOME). And permissions 700 is fine. So you could try changing ownership and see if it works.
With KDE 4 applications, a Linux system would use $HOME/.kde4 for these purposes, but Macports does something quite different and more in line with OS X usage. So I wonder if your .kde directory is legit in the Macports world ... Cheers, Ian W _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
