A private E-mail suggested I try renaming ~/.kde to something else and log in again. He thought that would recreate my config files.
Worth a try I suppose!
doc
No improvement from renaming /home/edoc/.kde and rebooting, just the loss of important settings. I restored the original file. Among other errors when I call kde from Failsafe is "can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured." Also, rebooting to Root requires that I reinstall my USB mouse every time. Since I am seeing a font error when I call kde from Failsafe I looked at /home/edoc/.fonts/fonts.dir It contains only a 0 and is flagged rw-r--r-- I also looked at /home/edoc/.fonts/kde-override/fonts.dir and everything is the same there as well. Help? Thanks! doc