[plug] KDE on Mandrake some questions

[Innis Cunningham]

Thanks Alex

  Alex Nordstrom writes
>
>Hi Innis,
>
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Sory I was not aware of this and will keep it in mind in the future.
>
>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:41, Innis Cunningham wrote:
> > Running KDE on Mandrake 10.
> > Two questions
> > 1)Where are the KDE files on my system?.
> > I have looked in USR and other places but can't
> > find them.
>
>It depends on which KDE files you are looking for. Configuration files
>are generally found in /etc or your home directory. Icons, sounds and
>so on are usually under /usr/share (a lot of KDE stuff is
>under /usr/share/apps). Can you be more specific with respect to what
>files you are looking for?

I was under the impression(mistakenly)that KDE had its own directory
somewhere.I was just trying to have a look to see what files were
about.

> > 2)The writing under the icons on my desktop have a shadow
> > under them is there a way of removing this feature.If so where
> > should I look?.
>
>Right-click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop" from the
>context menu. Now do the illogical thing of clicking the "Advanced"
>button in the "Background" view of that dialogue window. A new dialogue
>window will appear, where you can uncheck the "Enable shadow" option. I
>can't blame you for not finding that.

Thanks.
>
> > Also I have tried using the CP command to move directory files
> > on my system but each time I get a "omitting directory" warning and
> > nothing gets copied.What am I doing wrong?.
>
>From man 1 cp:
>
>       -R, -r, --recursive
>               copy directories recursively
>
> > And if I change the permissions for a directory will this change the
> > permissions
> > for all the subdirectories and files in the main directory or do I
> > have to go and
> > change the permissions of every file separately?.
>
>chmod operates on files. Directories are considered files. To recurse,
>use the -R option or --recursive option as with cp. (For no obvious
>good reason, lowercase -r does not work.)
>
>Since it's often a good idea to have the executable bit set for
>directories to enable searching but not on most files, one can use the
>find command to set different permissions for files and directories.
>
>Let's say we do
>
>chmod -R 700 ./pictures/
>
>which will give read, write, and seach/execute permissions to the owner
>for all files in ./pictures/ and its subdirectories. We now want to
>make sure that plain files (that are not directories) have read and
>write permissions for the owner, so we do something like:
>
>find -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
>
>See man find for details on how this works, if you are interested.

Thaks again for this.
>
>--
>Alex Nordstrom

Cheers