V9.0 Can anyone help please? I've lost everything on the tool-bar on a clients machine apart from the quick start icons! I was adjusting the behaviour, number of desktops etc. to be the same as my home machine to ease talking the client through tasks. That was fine. I then restarted the machine because I wanted to check the BIOS (made no changes) and when it came back up, the clock, mixer, desktop selection etc had all gone apart from the left-hand Icons for the menu, Konsole etc! The extra windows still exist and all the settings look right. I've seen this once before on a box that was used by a pupil in an exam, it came back in the same condition, I assumed that the pupil had been fiddling. Since I had to rebuild the machine anyway, I never bothered to try and fix it. Kind regards Adrian
--- Adrian Wells <adrian@spannerhammer.co.uk> wrote:
I've lost everything on the tool-bar on a clients machine apart from the quick start icons! I was adjusting the behaviour, number of desktops etc. to
I'll make a leap of faith here, and assume this is KDE you're referring to, and not anything else.
selection etc had all gone apart from the left-hand Icons for the menu, Konsole etc!
Sounds like you mangled ~/.kde -- if you have a backup of this before you started, I would restore to it, else I would drop in your own version entirely. -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] I've lost it!
--- Adrian Wells <adrian@spannerhammer.co.uk> wrote:
I've lost everything on the tool-bar on a clients machine apart from the quick start icons! I was adjusting the behaviour, number of desktops etc. to
I'll make a leap of faith here, and assume this is KDE you're referring to, and not anything else. Your faith serves you well, it is indeed KDE! :-) Sorry for the omission.
selection etc had all gone apart from the left-hand Icons for the menu, Konsole etc!
Sounds like you mangled ~/.kde -- if you have a backup of this before you started, I would restore to it, else I would drop in your own version entirely. I have a folder .kde but I can't find any items in it that refer to the desktop etc. unless it's under an unexpected name. I've mainly been checking .kde/share/config since the other folders don't yield much that looks useful. /Desktop-%1 and /Desktop-0 (in /tmp) are of little help either, although Ksycoca looks interesting and mentions desktop bits, I'd not want to edit it manually!
The desktop configuration tool appeared to hold all of the correct setting when I checked. Could I copy .kde from another user (to root), or would that be dangerous?
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--- Adrian Wells <adrian@spannerhammer.co.uk> wrote:
.kde/share/config since the other folders don't yield much that looks useful. /Desktop-%1 and /Desktop-0 (in /tmp) are of little help
They won't be, and neither do they contain the information you're after.
The desktop configuration tool appeared to hold all of the correct setting when I checked. Could I copy .kde from another user (to root), or would that be dangerous?
It will be fine. Just make sure that when you copy it over, you run: chown -R user.user ~/.kde where "user.user" is the username of the non-root user you copied the files to. If you don't do that, nothing'll work. -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k
Thanks Thomas, I'll give that a go. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] I've lost it!
--- Adrian Wells <adrian@spannerhammer.co.uk> wrote:
.kde/share/config since the other folders don't yield much that looks useful. /Desktop-%1 and /Desktop-0 (in /tmp) are of little help
They won't be, and neither do they contain the information you're after.
The desktop configuration tool appeared to hold all of the correct setting when I checked. Could I copy .kde from another user (to root), or would that be dangerous?
It will be fine. Just make sure that when you copy it over, you run:
chown -R user.user ~/.kde
where "user.user" is the username of the non-root user you copied the files to. If you don't do that, nothing'll work.
-- Thomas Adam
===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net
"<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)"
-- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor)
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