On Saturday 27 January 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:44, you wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 January 2001 02:02, you wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:31 am, you wrote:
> > > > For those of you who don't have extensve edits to try to merge, I
> > > > omitted the following lines from my earlier post inadvertantly.
> > > >
> > > > In a terminal
> > > >
> > > > # menudrake --ecit-system-menu
> > > >
> > > > should do what you want, but it does it for all users.
> > > >
> > > > Civileme
> > >
> > > I just tried that a couple days ago.  It worked like you said - but -
> > > that broke the control panel.  My control panel can't access any of
> > > it's menu items now.  As of a matter of fact it doesn't come up with
> > > any menu items at all.  The left window is completely blank.  I've
> > > tried to fix it but I can't. How do I fix it ???
> > >
> > >   Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Well, the simple way to fix the control panel is
> > linux 3 at boot
> > login as the user with the broken control panel
> >
> > $ rm -r ~/.kde -f
> > $ startx
> >
> > and use .gnome instead if it is the gnome panel you refer to.
> >
> > more complicated is
> >
> > $ su -
> > password:
> > # updatedb
> > # rpm --rebuilddb
> > # update-menus
> > log out and back in
> >
> > Civileme
>
> Nope...dosn't work (at least with the KDE 2.1 stuff - which I know is
> unsupported). What I noticed (after blowing away my .kde several times) is
> that any menu entries via menudrake or the menu editor item on control
> panel basically trashes the kcontrol
> the items are still runnable from a command line (with a bit of tweaking)
>
> Andrew

The second method didn't work for me in 2.0 and I'm tired of deleting my .kde 
directory.  It's a long time setting up everything up the way I want it.  
Does anyone else know of a way to restore kcontrol short of deleting my .kde 
directory?

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