how do i repair my KDE desktop ???

[lightarmy]

HI!!:D
I have just installed Red hat 9.0 on my computer and when I tired to configure the overall look of my KDE desktop, it msyteriously crashed. When i tired to re log in again, there is only a blue screen. No panels or anything else is present .

Currently my gnome desktop is working , but , all my KDE related programs seem to have crashed with the desktop as well, for example Kdevelop and kate.

SO my question now is , how can repair my KDE desktop?

If I can't repair the corrrupt files, how can I uninstall and install it again ? I think I have an idea of how to re - install it through the " add packages program ".
However , I am totally lost on how to uninstall it via gnome or some other avenues.


Any help or suggestions are welcome and very much appreciated !!!!


looking forward to a reply!
Thanks !!:)

[SuperNu]

You can go to a command line and remove .kde and .kderc. They are both hidden due to the dot before the names. Just type ls -a to view all files. rm -rf .kde .kderc will remove both the .kde directory and the .kderc file. You should then be able to use KDE again.

--SN

[lightarmy]

First of all....thanks for the promt reply.

However... i still had not acted out on the advice as yet. There is a couple of things that i don't understand .


The method suggested , was to uninstall the folders containing the KDE files. However , from windows we know that even though we delete some of the program folders , remants of the program may still remain in the registry . Does this also happen in Linux ?? Or is removing the folders that was suggested sufficient???

My question may seem stupid and I apologise for that, I am still a novice in Linux .

All replies are very much appreciated!!!

Thanks!

[mdwatts]

When KDE starts up the next time, the .kde directory and other files should be recreated if they are not found.

You could move them to another location (as backup) using 'mv' instead of removing.

cd ~
or
cd /home/<user>

mv .kde .kde-bkup

mv .kderc .kderc-bkup

Look for other KDE related files/directories in your home directory and do the same if necessary and verify .kde and .kderc are correct for the directory and file name.

[Hayl]

Originally posted by lightarmy
The method suggested , was to uninstall the folders containing the KDE files. However , from windows we know that even though we delete some of the program folders , remants of the program may still remain in the registry . Does this also happen in Linux ?? Or is removing the folders that was suggested sufficient???

there is no registry in Linux

(except Gnome sort-of has one but if you were to delete all your Gnome files similarly to what you are attempting with your KDE files, the Gnome equivalent of the windows registry would be deleted)