Your right, i am an idiot, I shouldn't suggest reinstalling an OS. While on the subject, is there anyway to back up the markings on YaST. That way if you ever have to reinstall or if you want to set up a machine with similar settings, you can do so without having to manually remark everything?
On Fri Jan 26 18:45 , David Bolt sent: >On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Jay Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- > >>So I just had someone bring in a notebook that had SuSE on it, 10.2. >>His friend >>got all this crap on his desktop and asked me if it was possible to >>clean it up. > >Of course it's possible. > >>By that he means erase history from Ark and Kaffeine and all that good >>stuff. > >No problem. > >>I >>honestly don't know, I would just tell him to reinstall the OS > >Why on earth would you suggest a reinstall to get rid of program >histories?!? > >>but that can be a >>pain since you can't have YaST2 memorize your packages. > >It can remember what you installed initially. That's what the "clone >this system" box does. > >>Anyone know how to clear >>history on like Ark > >Assuming he's using KDE, just delete the file >$HOME/.kde/share/config/arkrc > >>and Kaffeine > >Open Kaffeine and choose the menu Settings -> Configure Kaffeine Player. >Click on the Misc icon and then click on the clear button. > >>? If not, I'll just have him reinstall and not >>let anyone borrow his notebook anymore lol. > >There's absolutely no need for that. If all he's wanting is to delete >histories, that's a serious waste of time. It's still serious overkill >even if he wants to revert to how everything was at first login. Again, >for KDE, just log in at a console and delete $HOME/.kde. The next time >he uses the KDE desktop, the directory will be recreated and all >applications will revert to the default configuration. > > >Regards, > David Bolt > >-- >Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ >AMD1800 1GB WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256MB SuSE 9.3 | A3010 4MB RISCOS 3.11 >AMD2600(64) 512MB SUSE 10.0 | AMD2400 768MB SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4MB RISCOS 3.11 >AMD2800(64) 512MB SUSE 10.1 | RPC600 129MB RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14MB TOS 4.02 >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
