On Tuesday 23 March 2004 06:36 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:31, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 Mar 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > I have some programs XMMS, kmail, & konqueror that apparantly > > > have some bad config files. I have reinstalled them but they are > > > still not good. How can I reinstall and clear everything > > > assosciated with that file from the computer or at least > > > overwrite everything. > > > > > > Regards; > > > Hoyt > > > > The config files are kept in hidden files/folders in your /home > > Just set konq to show hidden files and you will be able to find > > them. > > > > Another useful tool is slocate and kio_locate. (kio_locate is in > > the contrib mirror) > > Install those packages (install anacron too) and then run updatedb > > as root. You can then find any file on your computer to do with > > those apps. For example from the command line use 'slocate xmms' > > From konqueror enter locate://xmms/ in the url line > > Sorry Typo. That should read locate:/xmms/ > > derek Thanks for the attempt but I tried to get rid of an especially ugly font A.D.MONO and that operation created a fault in boot. Since I couldn't fix it I had to reinstall (6 times) but things are all better now. -- Regards; Hoyt
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