On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 00:11 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I no longer have the panel or kicker, and my desktop background has been > > replaced by a checkerboard pattern. I tried "rm -f > > ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*" as recommended by Rex a while back, but it > > didn't do any good. > > Actually, there's one thing you can try doing. It won't help you out of the > mess of mixed F9 and F10 packages, but it might fix the problem you're having: > Make sure Plasma is NOT running while you do your rm -f, otherwise it will > write back the old broken files when it quits. Some ways of doing this: > * run "kquitapp plasma" first or > * log in as some other user, e.g. root (that way, Plasma will run, but not as > your user) or > * log into some other type of session, like GNOME or even plain old runlevel 3. That worked, thanks (modulo losing my panel settings of course, but what the hell). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
