kdm login background

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Friday 18 July 2008 11:11, O. Sinclair wrote:
> Have to continue this thread - now I messed up so bad I want the
> original Gutsy KDM login screen and background back - but HOW? I tried
> just about every setting in Login Manager and none of them come close!

I'm not a guru but in the case of a "bad" file in ~/.kde I would do the 
following (standard magical cure) :
Rename ~/.kde to ~/.kde.bak and reboot (I belive there is a faster way than 
reboot, perhaps logout of kde is enough but I'm unsure).
If that problem is still there, just replace the newly automagically created 
~/.kde by your backup.
*Easy, isn't it?*		For the diagnosis.

*If that problem is solved* you will want to restore your settings: inspect 
what is in ~/.kde.bak... 
you could probably guess by the name which files or folders are probably 
unrelated and restore a great swab of them all at once (remember which one 
you transferred, for example first move them in a new directory and after 
that copy them to ~/.kde, 
then reboot/test to make sure it's O.K.
(it is also,possible you can guess directly which file is involved)
If no O.K. revert back an restore less files.
With a patient and clever search you will zoom in the faulty file in a finite 
number of trails (hope you know about "binary search"), 10 to sort out a 
thousand files and only 20 for a million, so it will be lesst than 20  ;)  I 
still know it will take you some time.

If you go this far as to identify the faluty file, please post the result 
here.

HTH 	Perry


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