Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - and lost my settings
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:10:29PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was feeling bored by the freeze, so I decided to install KDE 4.1
> from experimental. I installed the packages, it is running apparently
> fine, but... where did all my settings go? I started with a completely
> empty desktop, without even a panel with the "K" menu, taskbar, etc, and
> user-preference settings (such as left-handed mouse, focus follow mouse,
> etc.) are all gone.
>
> Is this "start from zero" behaviour normal?
normal --> No
I did not try this and your description is too vague to be sure. But
here is my guess.
expected --> sort of yes.
As I understand, experimental is "NotAutomatic: yes" archive, its pin
is 1.
Thus you must explicitly select package to install ones from it. I
guess you installed some KDE 4.1 packages but you have not updated
others. Thus funny desktop.
Simply having experimental in apt-line may not be enough.
If you enable all experimental, you may be hit by random problem. So I
recommend you to enable one by one for all KDE 4.1 packages.
More on
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html
Osamu
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