On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:23, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> Lets start over.
> When you log in you can choose the window manager, choose gnome.
> Open a konsole which should put you in /home/<user>
> mv .kde kde.backup this will rename the directory.
> log out
>
> Log in again now select kde this will recreate .kde
> now set your screen saver, i use random so i use them all.
>
> when you log out and back in you should have the same screensaver you
> choose. Likely there was a corruption of the files on the drive.
> Remember its a physical device and sensitive to any little change in
> voltage and a large change could create a corrupt file.
>
Thanks Carl, but I don't have Gnome installed. I could rename .kde from level
3 without X. Don't want to do that though because I would lose all of my
special settings and/or have to rebuild the whole .kde tree from the backup
file. There has to be a better way.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Bob S.