[newbie] kde strangeness....
it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i rebooted, and logged into kde i had no desktop icons and the menu entries didn't work (except for the display configure and logout). i could still run stuff though rbm execute command or alt f2. i tried creating a new user and logging in (the desktop co was fine). i then copied the .kde desktop .kderc .xscreen? etc files from the new user to the broken one and chown,chgrp -R ed them all. the border, theme was reset but still no desktop icons and the menu entries don't btw. gnome co all work fine.
Re: [newbie] kde strangeness....
Oliver Stieber wrote: it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i rebooted, and logged into kde i had no desktop icons and the menu entries didn't work (except for the display configure and logout). i could still run stuff though rbm execute command or alt f2. i tried creating a new user and logging in (the desktop co was fine). i then copied the .kde desktop .kderc .xscreen? etc files from the new user to the broken one and chown,chgrp -R ed them all. the border, theme was reset but still no desktop icons and the menu entries don't btw. gnome co all work fine. I have only one thing to suggest to you at this time. Learn to say "firewall!" and mean it. Leaving your system open like that with vnc listening in the background is crazy! -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
