Matt, Just nuke the following directories:
.kde Desktop It may not be necessary to nuke Desktop, but I would unless I had put a lot of work into setting up desktop icons, etc. (which I don't). Cheers, Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: [newbie] messed up my KDE > I installed Mosfet's Liquid rendering engine (very cool, makes menus semi > transparent ala macOSX). It works great except one feature was not available > and never being satisfied I decided to experiment a bit. > > I launched the kde program kcmshell from a terminal just to see if I could > find out anything. I suppose this is a sensitive program as now a lot of > things in kde are all messed up. File associations are lost (I cant just open > anything, I have to select the program to open it with), directories won't > open, konqueror won't launch, and the kde control panel is completely empty. > Not so good :) > > Is it simple to just remove all kde rpms and then reinstall them, or upgrade > them? > > Is there any way to tell kde to just revert to all its defaults? I'm running > Mandrake 8.1 with KDE 2.2.1. > > Matt > who should learn to respect his boundaries :) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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