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cliff99

Member

From: Sydney

Registered: 2005-10-03

Posts: 50

If KDE(kdm) won't start delete .kde from /home and restart !

I found this worked for me somehow I corrupted the .kde directory s deleted and rerun kdm an all was well again.

hope this helps someone.

Cliff

ivi3

Member

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 62

Re: If KDE(kdm) won't start delete .kde from /home and restart !

Thats the sledgehammer method I use too if gnome has some startup problem -> rm -rf ~./gnome* 

greetings
Mathias

Beresford

Member

Registered: 2005-07-31

Posts: 23

Re: If KDE(kdm) won't start delete .kde from /home and restart !

cd ~
ls -a

will list files in your home drive that start with a ., e.g.
.bash_profile
.fluxbox

this is where the configuration file get stored for most of the programs that you've started. if you delete the folder or file it will get recreated with the default settings the next time you start the program.

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: If KDE(kdm) won't start delete .kde from /home and restart !

that's strange, kdm doesn't store any files in .kde, so i don't think deleting .kde is a good idea for this, and please don't suggest to delete complete dirs, moving is much better, then you can copy other config's back.
greetings
tpowa