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Wed Oct 26 12:22:22 BST 2011


Is there .kde4 folder?

2011/10/26 Bogus Zaba <bogsub at bogzab.plus.com>

> Slackware 13.37, KDE4.5.5.
>
> Is there another location (other than the .kde folder) where kde config
> files are kept?
>
> My standard way of recovering from "kde won't start" has failed me since
> this is based on restoring a previously good .kde folder in place of the
> existing one that is causing problems. Now I have a failure of startup of
> KDE (but other users and other window managers for the same user start up
> fine).
>
> Symptoms are: Spalsh screen shows, but no progress with the icons which
> should slowly appear. Dumped back to console where I see:
> "
> startkde: Starting up...
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> kded(3521): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed.
> Error message was  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : "The name
> org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files" "
> "
>
> This all started when KDE crashed when I foolishly tried to add a
> "Launcelot" application launcher widget to my desktop. I already had a
> "Quicklauncher" widget, but on trying to configure the new widget, screen
> went black and I had to ctrl-alt-BS to close X and get back to a console.
>
> Thanks
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