I had a similar problem with gnome once. I don't remember all the
particulars but I do remember that all the files I needed to fix were
all backed up. So all I had to do was rename the files (instead of
deleting them). There were about three or four of them though.
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:51, Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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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