First, let me just say that I'm still a relative noob when it comes to remastering Knoppix, and I'm not a linux / unix expert by any means, so I still have a lot left to learn.

I've been all over the forums looking for an answer to the remastering problems with KDE menu items, and kicker panel item changes not appearing when booting from the ISO that's created from a remaster.

I've spent the better part of the day trying to figure out why when my CD's boot they look nothing like when I go into KDE from my remaster environment, and I think the answer lies more with user permissions then rsynch commands in the 45Xsession file.

This is what I noticed. If I boot from one of my remasters, and simply type "knoppix 2" at the boot prompt, the cd boots, but does not enter KDE.

If I type whoami, the response at this point is root. So if I simply type "startx" at this point, and KDE starts, my remaster looks exactly as it should. If I now exit the current kde session, and su - knoppix, and run startx again. viola! desktop appears as it aways does. So, permissions problem....

Now the frustrating thing is figuring out what exact permissions are incorrect. If I take the .config dir from /home/root and move that to /home/knoppix and chown it to knoppix, this doesn't do that trick, so there is something else that is a problem.

I think it has more to do with when remastering, when packages are installed, they are more then likely installed so as to give user/owner privledges to root, therefore user knoppix by default does not have sufficient permissions to access them, I would assume this would be true for additional themes, icons etc.

So one way of cheating that will probably work, is to just add the knoppix user to the root users group. I did that, su'd to user knoppix and then ran startx, and what I see is now 90% of my remaster looking the way it should.

So I still have some things to figure out, but if someone knows if I am on the right track, let me know. There has to be a simple answer to this somewhere.