On Thursday 25 April 2002 15:11, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:57:18PM -0700, Mark Bigler wrote: > > That should recreate all the default config files and restore your > > home files. From there you'll need to reestablish the settings you > > want. > > > > But, I'm sure there are many other cleaner ways to get things back. > > Why delete the user account and then recreate it? That'll just > reinstall .profile/.bashrc, no? Don't those live somewhere in /etc > anyway and could just be copied from there?
I agree. Those along with any other default config files and directories that are part of his distro. I'm wasn't sure that the location of that default user dir is in the same place for every distro, so I tried for a sort of generic way to access it and get him back to square one. You're right. A better approach would be to have him find that directory and do a "cp -a" from it to his home dir. > I usually start up KDE as my window manaer once after intalling > kde apps, and set them up under KDE. They then seem to work fine > under other window managers. Sounds good.
