On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:57:18PM -0700, Mark Bigler wrote: > 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.
Why delete the user account and then recreate it? That'll just reinstall .profile/.bashrc, no? Don't those live somewhere in /etc anyway and could just be copied from there? I usually start up KDE as my window manaer once after intalling kde apps, and set them up under KDE. They then seem to work fine under other window managers. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
