Hi Rick. Thanks.

I ended up copying the .kde directory of another user to use as a starting point;
worked fine. The question still on the table is "what happened in the first place
to trash this stuff?". I'll probably never know ...

Thanks, Ed.

Rick Rosinski wrote:

> 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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