Change location of user cache in KDE 5

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Thu Jul 7 17:10:27 BST 2016


On Thursday, 2016-07-07, 14:06:55, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
> >> XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
> >> /var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
> > 
> > And setting KDEVARTMP doesn't work either?
> 
> Oops. Yes, it does, Surprised, because I read here
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356850 that KDEVARTMP does not change
> the location of the kdecache directory anymore. So, I did not even try
> before now.

You might have a mix of Qt4 based and Qt5 based KDE programs and one of the 
Qt4 based ones creates the dir according to the variable of that stack.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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