Hello Friends, i have a serious problem,i using opensuse 11.3 (KDE Desktop) accidently i deleted my desktop task at all, all panel carachters and desktop figures gone… :(( then i added a new panel again but i want my all settings… is there any way to turn previous settings on desktop??? :’( or how to turn default setting
Hi,
To have a default panel, I think you have to erase the file /home/login_name/.kde4.
Quit you’re session and start a new one. It should recreate à new .kde4 directory and revert to default settings for you’re plamsa desktop.
if i do this operation is my programs or anything will get damage? or something will be erased?? i can’t risk it because there is many seirous and important programs :((((
Deleted what exactly? It’s not entirely clear.
The panel can be added back, but if you deleted your .kde4 folder, all your settings are gone.
Main Panel - Windows Live
Yep, it’ll erase other settings.
In this case, you’ll have to reset the panel manually.
DaaX wrote:
> To have a default panel, I think you have to erase the file
> /home/login_name/.kde4.
my personal opinion is to never advise anyone to delete such a
directory–just too much good stuff in there (yes, i know such quick
fixes are proposed and advised by many, but not me)…
instead, rename it…
that way noting is actually lost and, the system will auto-build a new
…kde, and if that ‘fix’ doesn’t work the other user can go right back
to where they were before…
make sense?
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
I think there is some misunderstanding here between ozantekin1 and DaaX.
When you @ozantekin1 say: “if i do this operation is my programs or anything will get damage?”. The answer is: NO, this will not damage your data (like letters you wrote, music you have, programs you wrote,etc).
When @DaaX says: “Yep, it’ll erase other settings.” He means that deleting your .kde directory from your home directory will remove all individual settings you made to the KDE desktop and other KDE programs. Thus these will all revert to heir default settings. That is why Denver advises not to delete, but to rename .kde4. You can then always either revert completely, or restore parts (e.g. your Kmail configuration).
Yeah! You’re right, I was a little quick on this one… sorry. 
thanks friends… but i am still scearing to make this operation… because since 1 week we have been installed many program for my workings (particle acclerator works) … 
i really don’t know what to do… i just want to push a buton and make default settings to my KDE desktop… ****n!!!
just want to push a buton and make default settings to my KDE desktop…
As said: start a Konsole terminal and type
mv .kde4 .kde4-saved
then log out of the GUI and log in again.
When login in the GUI is not possible (or if you can not start the Konsole terminal), then use Ctrl-Alt-F1 and you will see the concole on your screen with a login prompt. Login with your normal username. It will ask for your password. While typing this, you will see no echo (not ** or same), that is OK. Then type the
mv .kde4 .kde4-saved
and then type
exit
A reboot is not realy needed, but may be the simplest thing to do now. Login in the GUI and see of you got your default KDE.
HENK VAN VELDEN… i don’t know how to thank you my friend… all default settings came back without damage… Thanks from Turkish particle Accelerator Center… RESPECTS…
HENK VAN VELDEN… i don’t know how to thank you… i got my all default settings right now without no damage… i am so happy now… Respects from “Turkish Particle Accelerator Center”… big big big thank you!!!
HUSEYIN OZAN TEKIN
Tamam! Well done.
If you think you are not interested in what is now in* .kde4-saved* (all you old settings) you may delete it, but wait for a week so you are sure you do not need those old settings anymore.
BTW, it is not only me, but most posts above tried too bring you the same solution. But it is very difficult for us to understand what your Linux knowledge level is. That takes some time, but we will allways try to help you.
if i was simply trying to get the default desktop layout again what i would do is:
from the login screen do a console login available from the Menu options (bottom left)
login as the user with the problem
move the plasma config files with:
mv ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* /someplace/to/backup
(removing them is also an option if you know you won’t need any of the info)
this will cause plasmarc, plasma-desktoprc, plasma-desktop-appletsrc to be recreated at the next normal login.
log out of the console session and do an normal login.
prior to 4.5 the default taskbar was created automagically, but it may be in 4.5 that you are presented with an option to use the default or build your own (i haven’t had to do this in 4.5).
at least in the past this procedure worked extremely well, if others have additional info on why this wouldn’t suffice, please post for my benefit. 
I have no doubt you are correct, but in this case we needed a simple solution to be executed in a few clear explained steps. Thus the fineries were left out.
ozantekin1 wrote:
> Thanks from Turkish particle Accelerator Center… RESPECTS…
hoşgeldin!
NOW, make a backup of your system so you have a way back if it gets
messed up again!!
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
I just had the same thing happen on my KDE4/OpenSuSE-11.3 desktop which has been working flawlessly up until now.
I have time to collect some diagnostic data. Any suggestions on what to grab or try, or who to ask what I should grab?
I think I have a bit of a “to do” list of data protection coming out of this as well.
Observations so far …
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Started with a plasma desktop crash, reported via the GUI. (Haven’t seen one of those for something like a year.)
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I’m able to create a panel & populate it with widgets.
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Some of the Plasma applets seem to be missing.
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Some applications - KWallet & network management - won’t launch via the new panel / widgets.
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Going in through the Personal Settings app -> Network Settings shows all my networks & accesses KWallet successfully to get local network credentials.
Since I haven’t yet been able to see network status or access network manager via plasma, I changed my local wireless to “autoconnect”, which it does.
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My “fallback account” is unaffected. So, this is local to the user’s desktop setup, not global across users.
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When rebooting after the failure, HPLIP complains that there is no “system tray” available.
Since this happened to a couple of us, this could be a significant defect.
More as I learn more …
- Jim
jwbullock wrote:
> I just had the same thing happen on my KDE4/OpenSuSE-11.3 desktop which
> has been working flawlessly up until now.
>
> I have time to collect some diagnostic data. Any suggestions on what to
> grab or try, or who to ask what I should grab?
sounds a whole lot like a ‘bug’ to me, so if you log it as such then
the developers will ask you for specific diagnostic data, see:
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports
and, note the first step of logging a bug is searching to see if it
has already been logged…if it has you can read through and see if
you can contribute more or new info to the existing thread…(like,
maybe if say you and the other poster have the same graphics driver
and graphics chip…etc)
–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]