loss of Preferences

[Karl Larsen]

Willis Taylor wrote:
> I recently used synaptic, from Ubuntu 7.10, and installed KDE 3.5 
> Desktop.  It's fantastic but having MS I've mostly lost the use of my 
> right arm and need to operate my Track Ball from the left.  I make the 
> System changes and everything is fine until I reboot.  On rebooting I 
> get two messages each time;
> .. The first informs me that my Preferences cannot be saved because  
> /home/<my log on>/kde/share/config/koonquerorrc is not writable.
    First find out why <my log on> can't write to /kde/share/config/. I 
use ls -al and check that all is owned by you. It sounds like it may not be.


> .. The second follows the same path up to /config/kickerrc and it has 
> the same problem.
>
> I went to my home file and from there created kde/share/config and 
> there created the two ending files and in permissions made them 
> writable.  Still, I have the problem.  Please, where did I go wrong?
>
    It all sounds like a permission problem. Try to find out where.

Karl