On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:03 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:36, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Well, I'm back. Mozilla is fine and KMail are working. I've copied back > > from my old /home directory and re-set the permissions (which had gone to > > root, because of the mountpoint settings of the source). My current > > problem is that my desktop fires up fine, but clicking on a link, say, > > works once, then from that moment the desktop is frozen - doesn't answer > > the keyboard at all. Panel links still work, and if I open, say, KMail, > > then all the icons on the desktop disappear. > > > > What on earth have I done? It was fine until I started the copying back. > > > > Anne > > What about logging in as root, moving the /home/(whatever) directory > ELSEWHERE, recreate the /home/(whatever) directory again, login as you > so that all the necessary directories are recreated, logout, then copy > back the data directories you want - ??
Solved now - it was specific to my desktop, and I had renamed the installation desktop, copied the whole one from my old installation, then deleted the files/folders that I thought should not be there. I resolved the problem by a bit more re-naming, and just copying accross the links that I really wanted. Thanks anyway Anne
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