On Sunday 28 September 2003 00:28, Charlie M. wrote:

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> September 27, 2003 05:23 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
> > > Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after
> > > upping to RC2.  Looks kind of like a little gear.  Clicking it
> > > produces an error window:
> > >
> > > Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory
> > > file:/home/lance/.kde/share/apps/kicker/Welcome.desktop does
> > > not exist.
> >
> > Try deleting or renaming the ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc file.
>
> I should have thought to tell him that Greg, thanks. I must have
> been half asleep again. I must have some loose wires in my cranium
> again. ^_^
>
> He (and everyone else) probably knows it but the tilde......(~);
> well it isn't just the "go home" flag it's often used for. Too
> much trivia as usual from me. (-:
>
> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/04/history_of_the_tilde
>
> Also the dot before a file or directory name sets that object's
> state to hidden. So if Lance is looking for that file he won't
> find it unless he uses the exact name to find it with an editor or
> sets his file management browser to show hidden files in the view
> setting.

Thanks Charlie.  I did indeed figure out that .xxx meant hidden, and 
set Konqueror to show them all, as I run the same way in Windows.  
As you probably read in my other response though, renaming did not 
do anything I'm aware of.

Lance


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