Re: [opensuse] Restore KDE4 Desktop

Dotan Cohen wrote:

2008/12/25 John Andersen :

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Ok, this is VERY fustrating. My 11.1 system with KDE4 crashed and ever since then the desktop has been in disarray. The "panel" with the desktop icons went away and I can not figure out how to add it back. I played with the widget things and all the context menu items... none of them gets it back. This is a surprisingly common occurrence. If you EVER leave your desktop with icons unlocked it will happen seemingly at random. Using the desktop folder

Andrew Joakimsen wrote: option will almost certainly cause it to happen.

If you want to get back to some basic state just logout, then use a terminal session (ctrl-alt-f2) and login in text mode and delete the file named /home/<user>/.kde/share/config/plasmarc

It will be recreated in the default state. Then reconfigure your desktop as you like it (all over again).

Having done this a few times you will learn to make a backup copy of that plasmarc file any time you make a significant change to the desktop.

The plasmarc file gets hozed far too often for a production system. And an accidental delete of the Launcher Icon can not be restored by the regular means because you can never seem to get it just the way it was.

John, please file a detailed bug at bugs.kde.org and explain what you know. Thanks.

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