Re: Lost keyboard in KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny.
On Friday 01 October 2010 09:43:43 Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 01. 10. 2010 09:17:41 je Camaleón napisal(a):
> > > > Years ago, when I was using KDE3, cleaning the KDE user temp.
> >
> > folder helped a
> >
> > > > lot for solving this kind of (weird) problems...
> > >
> > > Worth a try. Thanks. I'll report back.
>
> Well, years ago, when I was using KDE3, a gentle soul advised me to
> rename my '~' dir, deluser my_user_name, adduser my_user_name, and then
> copy the important directories, one by one, from the backed up '~' over
> to the new '~' .
>
> You should make sure that the adduser command assigns the new user the
> same UID as the deleted user; that way, the new '~' and the backed-up
> '~' will have the same ownership.
>
> By logging out and in again after each copied directory, and testing
> out the issue, I was able to pinpoint exactly which directory was the
> culprit. I can't recall anymore what the problem was, and the procedure
> admittedly is a bit tiresome, but it definitely worked for me.
>
> I just hope the MTA doesn't change all the above '~' instances into
> smilies ...
Thanks, Klistvud. I ought to have thought of that! I shall definitely try
it. But I am somewhat behind having been unable to use my main desktop for
several days now. (This list has been spared the hardware issues I was
having!) Having made my user usable (I installed a second DE - xfce) I shall
temporarily shelve the problem while I catch up.
Lisi
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