After upgrading from oss 13.2 I feel like to start a fresh KDE as there are bugs here and there atm.
Or if there is some KDE cache I can try to get rid of first?
Here’s what I do, when I want to start over with the desktop.
First, I logout, and then login to Icewm. It’s best not to be logged into the desktop that I am starting over.
Next:
mkdir OLD
– that’s where I am going to save the old stuff in case I change my mind.
I then do:
ls -d .??*
That gives a list of potential configuration files and directories.
The idea is to move those to OLD. I don’t move all of them. I do move “.config”, “.local”, “.kde4”, “.adobe”, “.macromedia”.
I do not move “.xsession*”, and I do not move “.Xauthority”. I also do not move “.mozilla” since I want to keep firefox settings. And I do not move shell startup files.
When done, I logout from Icewm, and login to my usual desktop (KDE/Plasma 5) for a fresh start.
I can later examine what is in OLD, to see what I should rescue. I want to rescue konqueror bookmarks, maybe kwallet content, akregator database and perhaps a few others. I do the rescuing again from Icewm.
A month or two later, I “rm -rf OLD” because I am satisfied.
In addition to what nrickert described i usually delete /tmp and /var/tmp as well (before doing so, you should close down any services like databases !) and then restart my system to log into KDE again.
Best regards
susejunky
… a better suggestion would be to shut down, then boot to runlevel 3 and log into a root console to clear those directories, then reboot normally.
Thank you all for the great tips. So it seems deleting .kde or .kde4 was not supposed to work now. No wonder.
I’ll follow your instructions.
Yes, that’s true indeed.
Nevertheless it might be a good idea to check whether any servers (database, email, …) are already up in runlevel 3 and to stop them individually. On my system mariadb is already up in runlevel 3 but i’m not sure whether it keeps temporary files in /tmp or /var/tmp.
Best regards
susejunky