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H20

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From: London

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 58

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Problem with use KDE desktop as normal user (freezing?)

hi
since two week i have some problem with KDE and Xfce. When i login as normal user, i have lot of problem under KDE
- Wicd cant connect automaticly to select network, i need open wicd, and click "connect" several times
- I cant run any application under KDE (ex. Chromium, Terminal, Skype, Firefox, Gimp, etc...)
- I cant logoff or restart computer
- I cant save document in Desktop
etc...

Problem is, when i force restart, and run Linux again, or sometimes two times, everything work fine... but when i login to KDE as root, everything work fine , every time, so i think this is some problem with user files, because i create new user and all work fine, so can i delete some Xorg cache or any temportary user files to make work my account well ?

thanks

Last edited by H20 (2014-03-03 20:18:31)

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mzneverdies

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 147

Re: Problem with use KDE desktop as normal user (freezing?)

Try removing /home/<user>/.kde4, but beware, all kde-related stuff will be lost -desktop config, user themes, etc-

rm -r ~/.kde4

EDIT: better than deleting the folder, rename it, so this way you have a backup in case your problems persists, and if the problems go away, you can try restoring things piece by piece

mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4BACKUP

EDIT2: either way, when deleting/renaming the ~/.kde4 folder, make sure kde is not runnig (either do it from xfce, or logout from kde and switch to tty)

Last edited by mzneverdies (2014-03-05 16:27:01)

vitor895

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Registered: 2014-03-23

Posts: 2

Re: Problem with use KDE desktop as normal user (freezing?)

Please, install and boot kernel-lts. Here it stopped freezing

Last edited by vitor895 (2014-03-23 02:39:51)