On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 13:00 +0100, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > I just installed TDE 3.5.15 on a fresh wheezy box (T61p, kernel 3.*, nvidia > drivers). Funny thing, anything worked, after I got rid of all KDE4 libs > which caused a blue screen with cursor after login otherwise. > > The only issue I did not find a reason for is that > $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs gets overwritten with all folders set to $HOME: > > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" > > So this causes TDE to assume the desktop folder is the useres home directory. > I can change that dir to "$HOME/Desktop" and apply the immutable flag to the > file to prevent it beeing overwritten at login - the fiole is overwritten at > each login somewhere before TDE reads it. > > Now my question is, what when why is this file written? It's a bit anoying > when you stumble upon that problem :-) > > Nik > > I'm not sure if it's the same bug but does running xdg-user-dirs-update solve the problem? - John