[gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

[gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	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.

	Any thoughts on the matter greatly appreciated,

		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

[Neil Bothwick]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

[Andrew Lowe]

On 29/07/2014 3:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
>
>
	Had a look, "everything" appears to be there - no idea as to why I 
originally said ~/.kde4 was empty. The dates on all of the files are all 
over the place, that is from some time last year when I built the 
machine up to basically now so it looks like they are the correct files.

	Is there an environmental/system variable that should point to ~/.kde4 
that I should check to see is correct?

	Andrew