Panel Woes Solved

[Monty Shinn]

On 05/11/2011 10:39 AM, Bill vance wrote:
> Howdy again folks;
>
> I found a solution that you might want to implement for insurance.
>
> I have a multi user setup, but the users are all email aliases for the
> various lists
> I'm subbscribed to.  That's also my reason for wanting to be root, (ease of
> switching from one to another).  I virtuially never log on as one of
> these, as doing so is a cumbersome, and time wasting procedure.
>
> Anyway the way I solved my disapearing kde setup, was to log on as one of my
> aliases, and lo, there it was a pristine setup.  So I used the
> reviled, "sudo", to
> copy the, ".kde", directory and a few other things over to my usual /home/self,
> and the rest was a relatively simple matter of, "chown self
> /home/self/.kde/*", and,"chgrp self /home/self/.kde/*".  You'll need
> to do that for each, "/*", step
> out to around ,"/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*", just stop when you get a, "no such file or
> directory", error, and then log back in as yourself, and you're, "home", free.
>
> So, the cure then is to create a bogus user, (if you don't have sonething you
> can allready use as one), do all your usual system setups for the bogus one,
> and you're done.   One each, emergency backup for your kde system.
>
> Later, bye;
>
> Bill
>

Perhaps a better option would be to use the chown -R and chgrp -R to do 
all the changes recursively, if I am understanding what you are doing.

I appreciate the info.  I think I'm going to make a copy of my .kde 
directory for safe keeping...

Monty