How to reset KDE 4.3

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Hi all,

I installed KDE and managed to mess up the panels during the first couple of minutes. I’ve look around for solutions how to get it back to default. It has been a hard road.

Firstly, for anyone with the same issue, I learned that you can reset it by pressing CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. Given that you haven’t logged out. Well I had.

Then I read about deleting .kde and .kde4 folders in the home folder. Did that and it and after starting KDE again it was very slow.

Then I thought that I would remove KDE through YAST.Well, YAST hangs when i select all KDE packages. The only way, for me, to get YAST running again is to hard reset. I guess there must be a better way. Well, I managed to remove most of the KDE packages with YAST by selecting fewer packages at once. Then i reinstalled KDE and started it again. Just to notice that the bottom panel is still missing.

So my question is. How do i “reset” KDE to default?

THanks

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kquitapp plasma && rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &

I think that’s about right

Or just rename .kde4 to .kde4_old

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THanks, this worked!

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Great. Happy to help.

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  • jan-henrik wrote, On 07/03/2009 09:46 AM:
    > THanks, this worked!

Could you restart plasma with the command line provided?
Because it wouldn’t work here, IMHO it is “plasma-desktop” in KDE 4.3

Uwe

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Nope, I renamned the folder. Which was the second suggested solution.

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I can’t recall what “error” message I got from the first command.

Happy the other solution worked. Thanks again!