Need help with KDE4 on SuSE 11.1

[Peter Lewis]

On Saturday 20 December 2008 00:04:55 Jerry Houston wrote:
> I updated to openSuSE 11.1 today, and KDE4, which had been working fine on
> my 11.0 installation turned absolutely awful.
>
> When I log on, it launches several applications that I had running in an
> earlier session, but puts them on one desktop, not on the eight that I've
> always used.  There are no caption bars on the windows, so I can't move
> them, or close them.
>
> There was a thin strip of the bottom panel showing from behind a
> full-screen copy of Konqueror (a strip about 4 pixels tall), and somehow I
> managed to close that panel while trying to resolve the problems.  So now,
> no menus, no caption bars, and 4 or 5 applications that I can't move or
> close.  I've only been able to bail out by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and
> logging off.
>
> I found out that if I log on as root, with a KDE4 session, everything looks
> as it should.  So it's definitely a per-user problem.  I'd love to find a
> way to delete whatever is responsible for this configuration, and go back
> to a default KDE4 desktop.
>
> Can someone please tell me how to do that?  I haven't found anything in the
> desktop configuration that will fix it.
>
> Thanks!
>

For a start you might try logging on in a bash session (no KDE) and renaming 
the ~.kde4 folder in your home directory.

You would then loose all your previous settings from KDE4 but you could reset 
all of that.

-- 
Best Regards
Peter Lewis

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