On Thursday 25 April 2002 14:48, Ben Huot wrote: > I removed all the directories that begin with a > period and the Desktop directory recursively.
Whoa! So now you no longer have any config files. Is that right? If so, a brute force way back would be to: 1) tar up your home directory to someplace safe (not your home dir) 2) Login as root 3) Note your current user and group numbers 3) Delete your user account 4) Recreate it using the same user and group numbers you had 5) untar your old home directory That should recreate all the default config files and restore your home files. From there you'll need to reestablish the settings you want. But, I'm sure there are many other cleaner ways to get things back.
