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I hope this part of the forum is the correct area for my question, but in the event it is not, I apologise in advance and if someone could tell me where to put this I'd be grateful.
I've been experimenting with Arch on a laptop and I've found it to be quite useful so far. However, on the laptop I formatted my /home partition (after making data backups) so that I started with an uncluttered partition. KDE on the laptop has been unproblematic for now which is pleasing but I do not wish to do the same thing on my desktop machine. I'd much rather preserve my home folder with my KDE intact.
This leads to my main concerns and questions:
1. The last time I had to reinstall pclos, I left Home intact. When I booted into the new installation though, kde had issues with old files in my users directory such that it refused to log in to KDE at all. I finally managed to log in by deleting the contents of my /tmp folder. The issues, though, persisted such that my customised desktop was rather messed up & my theme would not function properly at all. In the end I had to delete the .kde folder itself & start over. So my question becomes then - what do I delete in advance (if anything) within the .kde folder to ensure my settings stick & I have reasonable expectation that my desktop/wm will work as before my migration?
2. If my kde does get fubared by some mischance, which folders within it provide my settings and can they be backed up & re-used on my Arch KDE DE when i'm done setting up Arch? Is this inadvisable? Would it be best at that point to just start KDE again as a so-called "blank slate" and then to reinstall my themes & tweaks by hand?
3. Are there any other folders or files that I should not re-use from my old pclos installation (I'm thinking of config files mostly) ? Are there any that can be safely left intact on their relevant partitions so they may be re-used when installing Arch or at least returned to their correct directories? I ask this because I do have a separate /var, /usr & /tmp folder working with my current PCLOS installation.
Thank you
MS
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