On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:20:06 +0530, gene heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > Well, based on a nothing to lose theme, I nuked the whole ~/.kde4 tree, > logged out and back in. But I still had 10 workspaces when I logged back > in, which is puzzle #1. It should have defaulted to 4 I believe. i believe that info. is cached somewhere outside the ~/.kde4 tree > Puzzle #2 then was solved by amanda, restoring the .kde4/share/config files > for the most used stuff, so kmail seems fully recovered for the most part. > > I now have a cashew on all screens, but all are running the same background > pix slideshow of my choice once that was reset, but I haven't found where > to set that individually again. Hints welcomed. systemsettings -> workspace behavior -> virtual desktops: check "different widgets for each desktop" > But, the windows top, blue bar is still blank, and full width right clicks > to the move to a different workspace menu. However, I did just note that > this menu does _now_ include a "close" action item, which was not there > before. i still believe that may be theme or style related. did you try changing that (systemsettings) > So maybe I can get it back to where I wanted it. But it sure doesn't fit > the linux way if the only way to fix it is to nuke the whole .kde4 tree and > start over. That has about a 10-33 torr vacuum suckage to it. > > I have looked at the tut links bandied about here, but most of them are > both dated, and written by a frustrated user who like me, was simply > pokeing at it to see what twitched, not from any real first hand knowledge > of how this code was written to work. > > Thanks for reading this far. > -- phani. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.