<SOLVED> plasma-desktoprc file problem at boot

[tomcloyd]

Immediately upon booting, I get restoration of previously open windows (KDE stuff, anyway), but NO TASKBAR. Minimizing all windows manually, I see as error msg window: "Configuration file '/home/tomc/.kde/share/plasma-desktoprc' not writeable. Please contact your system administrator."

Clicking this msg window closed, the desktop and taskbar appear.

Checking that '.../share' dir, I find that user tomc (me) owns it, so what's the problem? That "plasma..." file is nowhere to be seen.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do here?

[skunk]

Re: plasma-desktoprc file problem at boot

Hmmmm

On my machine that file is located in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

[tomcloyd]

Re: plasma-desktoprc file problem at boot

Hmmmm

On my machine that file is located in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

Yeah. A typo. Is there on my machine too.

That file is owned by root.

I don't see any functional deficit in the OS (yet). What should I do about this error msg?

[kubicle]

Re: plasma-desktoprc file problem at boot

Hmmmm

On my machine that file is located in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

That file is owned by root.

That's your problem, it should (like everything in your $HOME) belong to you, not root.

sudo chown tomc:tomc /home/tomc/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

should fix the ownership...and the errors.

[tomcloyd]

Re: plasma-desktoprc file problem at boot

Hmmmm

On my machine that file is located in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

That file is owned by root.

That's your problem, it should (like everything in your $HOME) belong to you, not root.

sudo chown tomc:tomc /home/tomc/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

should fix the ownership...and the errors.

And indeed it did! Thanks!!!