Craig White said:
> one other thing...if the shutdown were so abrupt as to not allow KDE to
> do it's housekeeping... you might need to delete these files from your
> home directory...
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 craig dom_users 74 Jan 1 21:06
> .DCOPserver_lin-workstation.azapple.com__0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 craig dom_users 54 Jan 1 21:06
> .DCOPserver_lin-workstation.azapple.com_:0 ->
> /home/craig/.DCOPserver_lin-workstation.aza
>
> rm ~/.DCOPserver*
>
> should do the trick
Thanks for the tips, Craig. The box is for tinkering so I was not too
concerned about loosing anything. I took the following route:
- Killed X as in your first email
- Deleted the .DCOPserver* files in my home directory, as above.
- Renamed the ~/.kde directory to ~/kdeOld (mv ~/.kde ~/kdeOld)
- Restarted X with startx
This caused a brand new ~/.kde tree to be created and came up fine. Now I
just need to adjust the few icons and few settings that I lost.
REMEMBER everyone "listening": I don't consider this a general fix
proceedure for the problem I encountered. Because I did not care about
loosing things, I did this proceedure. YMMV.
BTW, I did not loose my actual desktop icons or the test emails I had on
the box. Just the rest of the KDE settings.
Alan
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