I once ran Windowmaker+GNOME as default, then I switched to KDE, but lately KDE's been uninstalled on my machine and I'm using Windowmaker again but this time without GNOME (which reminds me maybe it's about time I grabbed .25 ;) Anyways, IIRC KDE made dotfile directories for each user's customizations in their respective home directories when I installed it and I never encountered any permissions problems. Data that could be shared between users was put in /usr/share/... (like /usr/share/wallpaper/, a good idea). Also, I never had to add any export statements or edit any config files by hand with KDE. You can do everything from within it with a nice GUI.
When you installed KDE, did you grab the *.debs from their site? If you didn't, but grabbed the tarball instead than this could explain your woes. If you do grab the debs, be sure to get the *-dev packages to because I heard some necessary run-time pixmaps are mistakingly/non-intuitively packaged there. Azog wrote: > > Hello. I've recently switched from WindowMaker to KDE. I never run X from > root, its always run from user azog. How can I get kde to read config files > from ~/.kde (like it should... with $KDEDIR) instead of all the separate > dirs like how its setup? azog has no write perms on /etc/kde, which makes it > kinda hard to customize ;> And yes, I did 'export KDEDIR='/home/azog/.kde' > (zsh). Any Help is appreciated. > > -- > -Josh > Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog) > ..and always remember..."arf is god spelled funny." > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > GCS d---(pu) s+:- a16 C++>$ UL+++>$ P+ L+++ !E W-- N+++ o? K+ w--- !O !M V- > PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+ t 5 X+ R tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G+ e->++++ h! r++ y- > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
