[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[david]

Sorry. Only thing I can think of after that would be to just give up on 
this user ID, create a new ID and have the system set up a new .kde tree 
for it, and move things over ...

Well, I see my USB keyboard just once again decided to act as if its 
Ctrl key was stuck (which it's not) ... back to the laptop keyboard!

Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> nope.. :( .. earlier I have posted the output from xsession-errors..
> 
> On Dec 27, 2007 1:57 PM, david 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 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>>
>      >      > <mailto: 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.

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David
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