Thank you Reece Dunn, for the feedback. I changed and exported XDG_DATA_DIRS as suggested and executed kdm. It did not solve the problem for me. Does the XDG_DATA_DIRS path go somewhere else as well, like into kdmrc? Magnus > > XDG_DATA_DIRS needs to be: > > $ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ > > This is because if XDG_DATA_DIRS is not set, it will use > /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ and the common shared mime info data > gets installed into these directories (in a mime sub-directory). > > HTH, > - Reece H. Dunn > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<