Re: KDE Desktop busted on 10.3

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, TwelveEighty wrote:-


Ever since I had a problem with "Suspend to disk" thrashing my hard
drive (serious fchk problems, long story), my KDE desktop icons don't
remember their positions and all line up on the left. For example, I
can drag the "Printer" icon from its current position, lower left, to
an arbitrary position elsewhere on the desktop, but when I log off and
back on, it's back to its previous position: lower left.

Which file(s) control the position of these icons in KDE?

${HOME}/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions

Make sure it, and the directories above it are writable for your user.

On a related question: how can I "start from scratch" with default KDE
settings as if I created a new user login? Is it simply a matter of
logging off, deleting the .kde and .kde4 directories in my home
directory and logging in again?

Renaming them is safer as you don't lose all the settings and can easily
restore things as required. Just as a couple of examples of the stuff
you might not want to lose:

Knode saves news server settings, subscribed newsgroup data, score and
filter files, and saved articles in the directory .kde/share/apps/knode

Konqueror stores its bookmarks and URL history, and some other stuff
inside .kde/share/apps/konqueror

There are others as well, and if you look in .kde/share/config/ you'll
find all the configuration files for different applications that you can
play with :-)


Regards,
David Bolt

--
www.davjam.org/lifetype/ www.distributed.net: OGR@100Mnodes, RC5-72@15Mkeys
| SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit
SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit |
RISC OS 3.11 | RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: KDE Desktop busted on 10.3
    ... drive (serious fchk problems, long story), my KDE desktop icons don't ... Which filecontrol the position of these icons in KDE? ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • KDE Desktop busted on 10.3
    ... drive (serious fchk problems, long story), my KDE desktop icons don't ... Which filecontrol the position of these icons in KDE? ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Re: panel question
    ... >>believe is kde) in the center of the panel are icons that show what ... >>anyways, the icons that show what programs are currently running, the ... > notice there are no settings here for changing the ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Re: [kde] KDE Space between icons
    ... Is there any way to change the space between icons on the desktop. ... For my pity, KDE authors think, that nobody sets icons spacing in Windows ... Background Settings -> Advanced Settings ...
    (KDE)