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[ajtiM]

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 05:46:33 Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:39:21 -0600, ajtiM wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I succesfully installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2 and I didn't have problems with
> > bsdinstall and others. What I didn't have on 8.2 is when I start KDE4
> > with startx I got directory .config in /. I have one .config in /home
> > but what it happened? When I deleted as root and I start again KDE4 as
> > user I got it again. Inside is a file Trolltech.conf (the same is in
> > /home/.config).
> 
> That file seems to be part of Qt. How can it be
> created outside your $HOME when you startx? That's
> somewhat strange... how _can_ that happen?
> 
> 	% cd
> 	% touch ../bla
> 	touch: ../bla: Permission denied
> 	% touch /bla
> 	touch: /bla: Permission denied
> 
> Only root permissions allow the creation of files
> in that specific directories.
> 
> Neither /.config or /home/.config should exist.
> It shoud be ~/.config for your user account.
> 
> I also have ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. I'm not using
> KDE, but one KDE program, maybe other Qt-based programs.
> Maybe one of them has installed the directory (at
> this correct location)?
> 
> 	% ls .config/
> 	Trolltech.conf
> 	audacious/
> 	autostart/
> 	gsmartcontrol/
> 	gtk-2.0/
> 	menus/
> 
> Okay, seems that other toolkits also use it. :-)

I don't know how this happened but I have it start all the time when I startx.
Troltech.conf:

[Qt%20Plugin%20Cache%204.7.false]                                                                                                              
usr\local\kde4\lib\kde4\plugins\kauth\backend\kauth_backend_plugin.so=40704, 
0, i386 usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd g++-4 full-config, 201
1-11-20T16:14:25                                                                                                                               
usr\local\kde4\lib\kde4\plugins\kauth\helper\kauth_helper_plugin.so=40704, 0, 
i386 usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd g++-4 full-config, 2011-
11-20T16:14:25 

Mitja
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