I know this isn't the place to ask, but the amount of dreck returned by Google on the subject is generally either incomplete or just plain wrong. I also figure fellow Alpha users have been here :-(.
Recent upgrades to KDE (now KDE4) and Gnome (now Gnome 3) have left me without a working GUI. I go through this pain every time there's a major distro upgrade, and I think I've finally reached the point where I need to start over. Short of a reinstall from scratch, what's the best way to give myself a "new user" KDE4 and Gnome 3 configuration? Assume I don't care about any existing desktop customizations, because I have yet to see a desktop environment upgrade do so (correctly), and I'm tired of fighting this particular battle :-(. Too many things broken right now, and it's tough to debug when there are multiple potential causes (mostly due to running "sid"). The amount of mostly undocumented application-specific configuration crap under a user's home directory is truly astounding. I've got the following directories (not a complete list), some of which I'm sure are artifacts from earlier days: .cache .config .dbus .fontconfig .gconf .gconfd .gnome .gnome2 .icons .kde .local .metacity .nautilus .pulse I'm going to assume most if not all of the above can/should go bye-bye, although I'll probably save the ".icons" directory. /etc/skel is minimal: doesn't seem to have been touched since 2010, and contains only .bash_logout, .bashrc, and .profile, i.e., no GUI-specific skeleton configuration to copy into place. Any and all knowledgeable help appreciated. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111028125308.ga28...@gherkin.frus.com
