There is one easy fix for this problem.  If you are not worried about losing
any application configuration (address books, colors, fonts, and other custom
stuff), you can just kill the $HOME/.kde directory and restart X.
Or if you really need to keep things the way they are, look at the files in
$HOME/.kde/share/config/  There are many rc (resource) files that you can peek
into here.  You can customize any KDE program from here, including the number
of desktops you can have at any one time (the default is usually four, but I
use eight).   These also store info about general configuration information
about apps, like POP3 mail account configuration for KMail, etc.

The $HOME/.kde/share/apps contains subdirectories for all of the
data stored, like addressbooks, mail, etc.  This is more important than the
configs.

The safest, and surest, bet of killing this problem - without killing your data
- you should back up $HOME/.kde/share/apps somewhere, then delete $HOME/.kde,
then restart X (KDE will recreate the $HOME/.kde directory tree), and then you
can close out of X, and restore the backup of apps to $HOME/.kde/share/apps. 
Ultimately, you will have whiped out your configuration, but your data will not
be lost.  You can always reconfigure everything. Hope this helps

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I'm running RedHat 6.1. GNOME worked and continues to work (as well as
> it ever did). KDE WAS working and I broke it somehow. Now it seems that
> none of the buttons (icons) on the toolbar that run programs work any
> more. There is momentary disk activity when a button is pressed but
> nothing comes up. Buttons that bring up sub-menus still work inasmuch as
> the sub-menus come up, but when you finally reach an executable and
> invoke it nothing happens. None of the icons that used to appear on the
> desktop (templates, etc.) appear any more. There is a "kvt" terminal
> window that comes up and Netscape comes up. Both of them work; I can run
> programs from the kvt window.
> 
> I have been messing around with the video and audio drivers recently. I
> am now using XF86_S3SAV instead of XF86_SVGA, and the "oss" sound
> drivers instead of nothing.
> 
> I LIKE KDE! What did I do?
> 
> Thanks, Ed.
> 
> 
> 
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