Re: Need help with KDE4 on SuSE 11.1

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On Saturday 20 December 2008 00:04:55 Jerry Houston wrote:

> I updated to openSuSE 11.1 today, and KDE4, which had been working fine on

> my 11.0 installation turned absolutely awful.

>

> When I log on, it launches several applications that I had running in an

> earlier session, but puts them on one desktop, not on the eight that I've

> always used. There are no caption bars on the windows, so I can't move

> them, or close them.

>

> There was a thin strip of the bottom panel showing from behind a

> full-screen copy of Konqueror (a strip about 4 pixels tall), and somehow I

> managed to close that panel while trying to resolve the problems. So now,

> no menus, no caption bars, and 4 or 5 applications that I can't move or

> close. I've only been able to bail out by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and

> logging off.

>

> I found out that if I log on as root, with a KDE4 session, everything looks

> as it should. So it's definitely a per-user problem. I'd love to find a

> way to delete whatever is responsible for this configuration, and go back

> to a default KDE4 desktop.

>

> Can someone please tell me how to do that? I haven't found anything in the

> desktop configuration that will fix it.

>

> Thanks!

>

For a start you might try logging on in a bash session (no KDE) and renaming the ~.kde4 folder in your home directory.

You would then loose all your previous settings from KDE4 but you could reset all of that.

--

Best Regards

Peter Lewis

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