[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[Aashish Chaudhary]

nope.. :( .. earlier I have posted the output from xsession-errors..



On Dec 27, 2007 1:57 PM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> I guess it didn't work?
>
> Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > I tried that and made sure that it belongs to me. I also tried making a
> > tar of my other account and untar it to my home directory.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > ~Aashish
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 27, 2007 4:26 AM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> > <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     You'll also need to change ownership of your copied .kde folder - it
> >     needs to belong to the correct user ID. On my Debian systems (using
> >     private groups), that would be "chown -R your_user_ID:your_user_ID
> >     ~.kde" for the .kde folder and everything in it.
> >
> >     Discovered that the hard way, after copying my home folder to a
> network
> >     share for backup, and having to copy it back after replacing an old
> >     Debian installation with a new Etch. ;-)
> >
> >     Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> >      > Kevin,
> >      >
> >      > unfortunately our server does not back up our home dir.
> >      >
> >      > Now when I login with kde session all I get is blank screen ( in
> >     this
> >      > case a blue screen ) and nothing happens.
> >      >
> >      > I also tried copying .kde folder from my other account and that
> >     did the
> >      > same ( I changes the username to my username in some of the
> >     files.. ) ..
> >      >
> >      > ~Regards,
> >      > Aashish
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > On Dec 26, 2007 7:29 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at
> >     <mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
> >      > <mailto: kevin.krammer at gmx.at <mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at>>>
> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> >      >      > Hi,
> >      >      >
> >      >      > Accidentally I deleted .kde folder and now I am unable to
> >     use KDE
> >      >     desktop.
> >      >      > I tried various methods to restore but no luck. Since the
> >     account
> >      >     is on
> >      >      > server I cannot delete and recreate my account.
> >      >
> >      >     While it means that you lost all your data (unless the server
> >     has
> >      >     backups), it
> >      >     shouldn't be a problem for startup.
> >      >     The .kde directory (or whereever $KDEHOME points to) is
> >      >     automatically created
> >      >     if it doesn't exists.
> >      >
> >      >     Do you get any error messages?
> >      >
> >      >     Cheers,
> >      >     Kevin
> >      >
> >      >     --
> >      >     Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> >      >     KDE user support, developer mentoring
> >
> >     And general all-around good guy.
>
> --
> David
> gnome at hawaii.rr.com
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