Re: Font hell - please help

From: Dick Cheney (dick_at_whitehouse.gov)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:22:45 +0100

Dick Cheney wrote:
> Ed Hurst wrote:
>
>> If all else fails, you may have to reconstruct your user account. I
>> start with killing all traces of kde/mcop cache after making changes.
>> In fact, every update of KDE stuff of any kind, I always do that. I
>> delete the directories in /tmp and the files in my home folder. If
>> that doesn't help, I rename my ~/.kde and restart from scratch,
>> pulling back in the critical files (addressbook, etc.)
>
>
> Well that was painful. I renamed ~/.kde to ~/.old-kde, installed a new
> ~./kde and copied across what I thought was the bare minimum of stuff.
> Still had the same problem. So maybe the problem is somewhere else. Argh!
>
And now more problems. Having copied back all the ~/.kde stuff, I find
that loads of configurations are screwed up somehow. Oh well, most of it
is trivial - except...

I have a few icons on my desktop that are links to shares on other
(Windows) machines on this network. Now when I click on them, I'm told
that the target is a folder (which I know, dammit) and KDE or someone
was 'expecting a file'. This happens to new links that I set up, too,
even when I'm very careful to end the URL with a slash. And while
setting up one, I tried to browse to my wife's machine to select the URL
and was told I could only use local files, not remote files. And yet, if
I open a Konq file manager window and type in the URL - smb://etc etc -
I can browse the Windows machines no problem, so Samba's working fine.

It's starting to look like I need to backup all my files and re-install
this user from scratch. Bloody tedious, but there we go...

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