Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma pager layout indicator

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 17/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 16/07/2014 18:45, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>>> easiest way to test: new user. Copy over config files until problem occurs.
>>> <doh>
>>> Yes of course, that's the best way. Didn't think of that
>>>
>>>
>> I just did my KDE upgrade so I renamed the .kde4 directory.  I logged
>> in, set up enough that I could test things and then logged out.  When I
>> logged back in, it worked like it should.  Let's see how long that lasts.
>>
>> Alan, make sure you change the permissions on those file.  I have a test
>> account that I rarely use as well.  In the past, I had to change the
>> owner from dale to dale2 which is my account names.  Usually the group
>> is the same so the owner is all that needs changing.
> Why change the permissions? They must be rw for the user using them
> which means chmod 6xx, the group being entirely irrelevant as it will
> never be referenced. If the new user is doing the copy then they will be
> owned by that new user anyway. "cp -a" will just always do the right
> thing in this case :-)
>
>

Well, I usually copy as root which leaves the permissions the same. 
Since you do it as user then you are right. 

Dale

:-)  :-)