On Friday, April 08, 2011 12:42:20 AM phanisvara das did opine: > 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" Got it, looks like this workspace now has a system default background image. Thanks. I couldn't do that without the cashews. > > 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) Yes, several times before I took the nuke option to ~/.kde4, with little or no effect, eveything seemd to be stuck with the same color schemes, yadda, yadda. I don't know if this is true now, and its about time for this old fart to sign off for the night, I'm taking some sort of high-priced stuff for pneumonia for the next 10 days. At 76+, and diabetic, my warranty long since expired, but I haven't, yet... Thanks again. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Learn from other people's mistakes, you don't have time to make your own. ___________________________________________________ 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.