And for newbies, nuking .drawfw helps a lot...

-JMS


|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miark
|Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:24 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [newbie] messed up my KDE
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|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
|
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|> 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 :)
|>
|>
|>
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