On Sunday 30 March 2008 01:34:13 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/03/30 01:07 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman apparently typed:
It is really difficult to operate without the Panel that has vanished, because it contains the virtual desktops. If I could destroy the thing and make a new one, and could emplace the applets on it as they were, life would be much easier. Can that be done?
You can simulate creating a new user by deleting various dirs in $HOME. First, while logged out, I'd try
mv .kde/share/config/kickerrc .kde/share/config/kickerrc-old
then logging in to see if it doesn't give it back. If that didn't help, I'd see if
mv .kde .kde-bak
would do it. That will cause most or all you KDE settings to be forgotten, but for me putting them all back usually only takes me a couple of minutes. ./config & .kderc are other possibilities.
It's a thought. Another thought is that something like this that has happened once can always happen again, and perhaps I should think about junking KDE altogether, and try Gnome. A small survey of administrators of enterprise Linux systems has told me that KDE is considered flakey (which I am now prepared to believe). Also someone posted here yesterday the observation that he has also seen disappearances like this happen (I have to say that I have never seen such a thing in any of the other OSes either I or my neighbors have operated). Who knows? Maybe Gnome is more stable; it is certainly worth a try. How can I go about removing KDE and starting Gnome, while causing minimum disturbance to the installed application software? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org