Hello. I am a 5 year's linux user, my experience told me if some application looks insane because of wrong configuration, I can always restart by removing ~/.appname folder This used to work for several years for ~/.vim ~/.openoffice and ~/.xine then suddenly I feel dropped in the modern world, a lot of applications' configure file is misteriously missing, I don't know how to reset per-user setting at all. Examples: * f-spot, I asked f-spot list where is the configure file and get no response * banshee, there is no ~/.banshee * K3B, CDRW burning tool And there are many others tool. where have all the configure files been? Is there a new general way of keeping configurations? I must be old now. If there is a new general way of keeping configurations, perhaps my old way of backing up won't work. I used to back up "~/.*", restore it on the newly installed computer as "~/.Trash/.*", then think which application's configure file I need, do "mv ~/.Trash/.vimrc ~/". I would use it for a month, restore an app's configure file when I need, after one month all the files remaining in ~/.Trash are not userful anymore and I clean the trash. Now I think I need to figure out a new way to do backup/restore. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼 邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）