> Quick comment here.� The above was very important.
> ;-)� Trinity expects to
> see KDEROOTHOME set, not KDEHOME, when run as root.�
> Maybe you can help
> here; is this a Debian-only distinction, or do other Linux
> systems also
> use KDEROOTHOME?
Setting KDEROOTHOME helps when running as root. Trinity did not create a new /root/.kde3 directory.
I made the change in my proposed startkde. An updated proposed script is attached. I added the following test:
# Run a quick test for root.
if [ -z "$KDEROOTHOME" ] && [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
echo "startkde: User ID is $UID. Setting KDEROOTHOME to $KDEHOME."
export KDEROOTHOME=$KDEHOME
fi
So setting KDEROOTHOME will help and I hope my change cures the problem.
However, in addition to running my conky display from /root/.kde/Autostart, I realized that KPersonalizer was not running. That provides confirmation that Trinity starts out honoring $KDEHOME for root but then changes sometime after. Trinity must be reading the startupconfig file from /root/.kde in order to not run KPersonalizer. So although KDEROOTHOME helps avoid some of the problems I described, there remains something awry with the way Trinity starts out correctly and then veers off course.
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