Trevor Farrell wrote:
> OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
>
> this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
> msg"
> & "reply", and several changes of text/subject. Other emails are going
> out OK, just not this
> one! My apologies if the floodgates suddenly burst and all 6 hit the
> list.
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Sean....that has been doable for a long time. Use this syntax:
> > 'startx -- :x'. Your original session defaults to x=0, the next
> > should be x=1 etc. Ctl-alt f7-f12 accesses the x-sessions
> > whereas ctl-alt f1-f6 accesses the consoles you started the
> > x-sessions in.
> >
>
> Well, I thought this was too good to be true, so I tried it...
>
> Logged onto tty2 as root, did startx -- :1 and was real impressed to see
>
> KDE start up as root. Yes, Ctrl-Alt-F7 took me back to KDE logged in as
> me. WOW it worked (so far...).
>
> Then, Ctrl-Alt-F8 took me to a black screen - keyboard num-lock light
> went out, tried every key combo I could think of to get some response,
> even a num-lock or caps-lock light would have been good, but the only
> thing that worked was Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot - with the screen dead, the
>
> system appeared to shut down properly- plenty of drive action - but no
> reboot - so I had to use the power switch (shades of M$ Windows...).
>
> When I restarted the box, it reported that the disc was not unmounted
> cleanly & did its checking - finally giving a status of "passed".
> Everything works normally now, except that when I'm logged into KDE as
> me, no icons & I can't execute programs - the panel & K menus are there,
>
> but only a few items (like logout) work. I can't open a terminal,
> refresh icons/desktop or anything. logging out & logging back in using
> gnome instead of KDE works (thats how I'm sending this) but I prefer
> KDE. Kde still works if I log in as root, just not as me!
>
> Well, I hate to admit it, but I don't even know where to start looking,
> so can someone please tell me what to do to get things back!
>
> Trevor
The KDE icons and settings load fresh if they aren't already there. You
can do this with safety though you will lose your (now
unreachable) customized KDE settings for your user and have to re-establish
them.
$ cd ~
$ rm -f -R ~/.kde
$ startx
Of course as root you could use kfm, set it to view hidden files, navigate
to the user directory and right click the .kde folder selecting delete,
then log in as that user and KDE will rebuild itself.
:-)
Civileme
