Rick....ok, in a console as root (su is ok), go to the users
directory (where the .kderc file is located) and (assuming the
user in question is rick) type:
chown rick.rick .kderc
Alan
rmurphy wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Rick....I'm guessing that you're in KDE as root (but are in the
> > user's directory that can't change the desktop options, not in
> > root's directory) and can see the file .kderc in a kfm window.
> > Just right click the file and choose properties - permissions.
> > Change both ownership windows from root to user.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan,
>
> I'm using a burned copy of Mandrake 7.0. This is really the first time Mandrake has
> caused me a problem like this and I go back to Mandrake 5.3. I've just ordered some
> burned copies of 7.02 hoping this will correct the problem along with a game
> "civilization call to power". I want to see how linux will do with the game.
>
> I've signed on as both super user and as root. I can find the file but can't seem
> to get to it. What I get is the message "The config file has no "type-..." line.
> Now I'm not a computer programmer. In fact I'm probably in the low levels of an
> intermediate user, so is this a case of a programmingly challenged operator or do I
> have some kind of glitch.
>
> Rick
>
> --
> "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea" JB
