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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:09:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729080950.61544aa3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D7196B.80600@wht.com.au>

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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:47:55 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	Fired up the 'puter last night and instead of a backdrop
> showing the dog doing something stupid, a task bar, the start button
> thingy, and a few other bits and pieces, I had the default KDE
> backdrop. The task bar was on the second screen, the backdrop was the
> default, there was no start button etc. What's happened?????? Obviously
> KDE has freaked out in some way, but how? Where are the files that
> configure the look and feel of my desktop kept? I've looked in
> ~/Desktop and ~/.kde4 and there was nothing there.

The files should be in ~/.kde4/share/config, so if ~/.kde4 is empty you
have a problem. Let's hope you also have a backup.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Life Support System Failure - Reboot Patient (Y/n)?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29  3:47 [gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared Andrew Lowe
2014-07-29  7:09 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-07-31  2:50   ` Andrew Lowe

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