kdepersonalizerrc editing woes!!

[JohnT]

Downloaded and installed KDE 3.0 and everything is working fine, but the kdepersonalizer that launches on startup. I've edited the "rc" file to reflect the suggested setting,

[General}
FirstLogon=false

It still starts up every time.I'm gonna shoot my foot.:confused:

[jglen490]

[General}
FirstLogon=false

If the above is an exact copy/paste, then the "[General} " part must be changed to "[General]".

[JohnT]

Typo. Sorry
Corrected below.
This is what I have in my rc.

[General]
FirstLogon=false

[carlywarly]

There are 2 kpersonalizerrc files, usually. One is in your .kde3 directory. The one you need to edit is in your .kde3/share/config directory.

[JohnT]

I did the config one because that's the one KDE pointed me to. I'll try the other. Thanks.
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(Later)
Nope, couldn't find another executable rc.

[JohnT]

Nope, couldn't find another, so it's still there at startup.

[carlywarly]

Sorry, let me be more specific, if you don't have the other file in that directory, the personalizer will run at each boot. Therefore, you will need to copy the whole file over to sort it out. I had a file there, but it was empty, so I just added those lines.

[JohnT]

Seems pretty simple and straightforward, but I copied it over and it still does not work. Thanks for your help. There must be some other environment variable effecting this in addition.

[LiNuts]

JohnT, did you fix the kpersonalizer problem, because i have the exact same problem, just posted it. (didn't see your post)
cheers
LiNuts

[jglen490]

The kpersonalizer problem is controlled by the presence of the .kpersonalizerrc (note the "." at the front of the name) file and the contents of that file. KDE first looks for this file in the logon user's home directory under the /home/<username>/.kde3 directory (note the ".", again). If it finds the file there, then it doesn't look any further, if ot doesn't, then it will look elsewhere, as previously noted. Everything must be spelled right (upper/lower case, spacing, the whole thing), or it won't work.

[wannabepenguin]

I believe the syntax is:

[General]
FirstLogin=false

Cheers,

Matthijs

[JohnT]

Checked and re-checked all of the suggestions above and still would not work. Finally solved the problem by unchecking executable permissions on the file. Pretty straightforward and simple.Works great. I highly customize my environment, so this is something that was just in the way of operation. Thanks everyone.

[jglen490]

Originally posted by wannabepenguin
I believe the syntax is:

[General]
FirstLogin=false

Cheers,

Matthijs

OOPS :o :o !!

[LiNuts]

O.K. for those who want the definative way of fixing this, It was/is a bug in kde3 the startkde script points to ~/.kde3 when it should point to the /opt/kde3.

So what you do is edit the startkde script (NOT the startkde3 script) and change the line that looks like "kdehome=`/kde" to "kdehome=$KDEHOME"

So that when you boot kde3 it runs the wizard only once, after that -No wizard- KDE.org maintains that it is a fault from the Distributors when packaging the product:confused:
Cheers
LiNuts

[JohnT]

It works here.Actually it didn't even show after reconfigure, as I had turned it off on the last one.There's nutting like the definitive way.
Thanks for the tip. :cool:

[aiiee]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LiNuts
O.K. for those who want the definative way of fixing this, It was/is a bug in kde3 the startkde script points to ~/.kde3 when it should point to the /opt/kde3.

So what you do is edit the startkde script (NOT the startkde3 script) and change the line that looks like "kdehome=`/kde" to "kdehome=$KDEHOME"

Thanks for the pointer. It was a little different in my instance. I looked in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde and could not find a line identical to yours. What I [B]did find was the following line:

kdehome=$KDEHOME/.kde

Which I changed to:

kdehome=$HOME/.kde

This worked. I am running kde3.02 but it looks like a version difference to me.:confused:

[JohnT]

It is a different version. Mine was 3.0. The 2. rc file should have been good to go with your configs already implemented

[aiiee]

nope, and I just dl'd it from kde last week. Of course it was the one of the mandrake rpms if that makes any difference

[LiNuts]

Aiiee, thats odd because mine was kde3-3.0.2, and i used the Mandrake rpm's, anyhow so long as works
Cheers
LiNuts