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How to restore a user environment ?

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Thursday, February 27th 2003, 2:19pm

How to restore a user environment ?

Hi !

I intalled KDE 2 from my Suse 7.1 for PowerPC. I wanted to delete a folder with Konqueror. I was logged as '''--root.The files were moving to the trash when computer crashed -.

So I did a hard reboot. But for the user root, I do not see any more the KDE toobar. More over, the title bars does not appear any more. For the other users, it works OK. How can I restore the user root ?

I would appreciate some help. I am a new linux user.

Xavier

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Thursday, February 27th 2003, 2:36pm

Hi,
try to delete the .kde Directory in your root dir. (Make backup befor you do this) The next time you log in, KDE will create a new profile. This will perhaps solve your problem.

Dim

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Friday, February 28th 2003, 4:19pm

How to restore a user environment ?

Thanks Dimitri,

I did not find any kde directory in the root directory.

I found a directory called "KDesktop" in "root". I deleted it. When I logged in as "root", this folder was created again. Unfortunately, the task bar and the title bars were still not present.

There is a directory in "/opt/kde2". Is it this one to delete ?

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Friday, February 28th 2003, 4:38pm

root

Maybe not every files are viewed.

Try this: (as root)

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cd /root
rm -r .kde

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Friday, February 28th 2003, 5:33pm

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Maybe not every files are viewed

Yep. By default every file begining with an '.' is a hidden file. You can look at it in konqueror selecting (hmm how's the english expression?) View - 'Show hidden files' (or something similar

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Friday, February 28th 2003, 5:56pm

show hidden files

View -> Show hidden files
is right.

Or do it with Midnight commander

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Sunday, March 2nd 2003, 11:26am

User environment restored sucessufuly

Hi,

I deleted the .kde2 directory /root. The user environment is now displayed normaly.

Thanks a lot !

Xavier