Hi all !

This morning, as I boot my computer and login, my whole config had gone away... no more keyboard shortcuts, no more nice wallpapers, amarok config lost, window settings set to default, back to Oxygen icons......

Where can it all have gone ? Where are the config files ?

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[dim. mai 01,10:04:18][moviuro@localhost:~]$ ls -a | grep kde
.gtkrc-2.0-kde
.kde/
.kde4/
.kde46/

What is the .kde46 dir for ?

The most stunning thing is : I had a such folder, but an old install of mandriva, on an other Hard Disk, wiith KDE 4.5.5 when I tried to install kde 4.6.1
This install of Mandriva is fresh (3 days old) and KDE is 4.4.5...

The only two only folders I copy pasted to my new installationn were :

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~/.mozilla/
~/.config/cairo-dock/

Please, help !

Hm, I've never heard of a .kde46 directory - perhaps you ought to trawl the Mandriva-Forum for that one as different distros implement things differently.

As for your special settings:

1. most appearance related settings are in ~/.kde(4 or 46 or whatever your distro decided to do)/share/config
2. your amarok database is under the same subpath, namele ~/.kde(4 or 46 or whatever your distro decided to do)/apps/amarok

You really need to check what Mandriva has done, but my guess is that you just get rid of the latest ~/.kde* directory imposed upon you by Mandriva and find your original one which you simply rename.

what is the result of the command: $(kde4-config --localprefix)
this will show where your system places/looks for kde config files

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[dim. mai 01,14:26:07][moviuro@localhost:~]$ kde4-config --localprefix
/home/moviuro/.kde46/

So I asked in the forums, and the .kde46/ folder shouldn't be existing at all.... ><"

Weird, seems like it's looking for the config in the .kde46 directory. Are you sure this install is completely fresh and you didn't upgrade to 4.6.x or something like that?

As a quick test, you could try this outside of a KDE session: (on your own risk, of course )

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cd
mv .kde46 .kde46-backup
ln -s .kde4 .kde46

Hans wrote:Weird, seems like it's looking for the config in the .kde46 directory. Are you sure this install is completely fresh and you didn't upgrade to 4.6.x or something like that?

Yes, my install is fresh
And I did, before you told :

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$ cp -rfv .kde4/ .kde46/
$ reboot

It didn't change a thing, so I did my config, again. Reboot, now it seems to be stable...
And the update brought me from 4.4.3 (shipped with MDV 2010.2) to 4.4.5 (official update...)

Please show the output of
env | grep KDE

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[lun. mai 02,19:59:34][moviuro@localhost:~]$ env | grep kde
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=kde-
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/moviuro/.gtkrc-2.0::/home/moviuro/.kde46/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/moviuro/.gtkrc::/home/moviuro/.kde46/share/config/gtkrc
KDEHOME=/home/moviuro/.kde46
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg/kde4
QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/moviuro/.kde46/lib64/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib64/kde4/plugins/

Even stranger... all kde files aren't in the same directory ><"
Seems cool...
Can I blow my head against the walls ?....

1st I'd create and login as a new user and see what the cmd "echo $KDEHOME" results in, if it isn't /home/new_user/.kde46 then the problem is yours, else it is system wide.

If only yours I'd look at .profile, .login or .bashrc files (these should be in ~/ if they exist).

If system wide the mandriva-startkde script and the skelton scripts found in /etc/skel

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[lun. mai 02,20:33:18][moviuro@localhost:~]$ cat .bashrc
# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

PS1='\
\[\033[32m\][\
\[\033[33m\]\d\
\[\033[32m\],\
\[\033[33m\]\t\
\[\033[32m\]]\
\[\033[31m\][\
\[\033[36m\]\u\
\[\033[31m\]@\
\[\033[36m\]\h\
\[\033[31m\]:\
\[\033[32m\]\w\
\[\033[31m\]]\
\[\033[00m\]\$\
 '

 export KDEDIR=`kde4-config --prefix`
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib
 export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin/:$PATH
 export KDEHOME=~/.kde46

Okay... so I copy pasted my whole old .bashrc instead of just the first lines.... so stupid from me ><"
Oh gosh, I'm so dumm...

so your .bashrc is setting KDEHOME to ~/.kde46 instead of .kde or .kde4 (which is what it usually is set to) though not sure which Mandriva uses as the default.

Could the "export KDEHOME=~/.kde46" be a remnant of your once compiling KDE 4.6.x from source?

Yes it is ^^ And I didn't modify my .bashrc since then and I copypasted it simply, without worrying

So, the problem has got its solution : cat ~/.bashrc