Some more info:

When I'm in kde and I use kmenuedit, it show my kmenu- the one I'd like for it to use. Yet the actual Kmenu is still the original, and when I try to make changes using kmenuedit, nothing happens to the kmenu that they system is using.

My applnk files in ~/.kde and elswhere in the system are all set to they way I'd like the kmenu to look.

Persistent home does not fix the problem either.

I think maybe I might need to alter the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession script.

The only things different about my remaster are- its based o a 6-06 version of knoppix 3.2, it's got openoffice 1.1, mozilla firebird, mplayer, ogle, and I ran apt-get upgrade for all the other packages.

This is probably related: Mozilla and firebird icons in the kicker's "quick launch bar" don't work. It says that Mozilla.desktop can't be found, yet the definition file Mozilla.desktop exists and is where its supposed to be.


It works fine on my hdd when chrooted and when I copy and chown the files myself in text mode, give myself an .xinitrc, and then startx.....
The mozilla quick launch icons also work when I get into KDE this way.

I may just force a graphical boot, and edit .xinitrc enough to do all these commands, so that startx will copy and chown all of knoppix's files before it starts KDE.