Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Jeff Chimene wrote:
> On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I
> > > restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this
> > > topic.
> > >      
> >
> > What's do you mean by 'containment'?
> >    
>
> One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called.
>
> Assuming that one starts at the "standard" kde4 desktop:
> o Right-click on the desktop
> o Select "appearance settings"
> o Select "desktop" in "desktop activity"; the description for which is 
> "default desktop containment". 

Hi Jeff,

I get this far and don't see any pop out menu.

> After clicking "X" on the containment's pop-out menu, the containment 
> disappears. I was able to restore the default desktop environment by 
> renaming .kde to .kde-save. 

That sounds similar to what I had to do when I did the update to KDE 4.2 
at the same time as the upgrade to X 7.4 and all kinds of things broke.

Paul Scott


> Needless to say, this is a bit like "reinstall windows to
> remove all virii"