For Nils who has helped me or any other expert, and Nubies like me.

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>nepal wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 Nov 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> nepal wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 23 Nov 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>>>> Is the config file you are suggesting deleting
>>>>> /.kde/share/config  ?
>>>>
>>>> Read the first two sentences of my original mail again.
>>>>
>>>> nepal
>>>
>>> It looked like our conversation was on an email for Nils,
>>> I am not sure, anyway, I have looked through both my
>>> saved email folders and can't find it.  There are a
>>> bunch.  I am going to take it that /.kde/share/config is
>>> not a folder to delete.  I will keep looking.
>>>
>>> Steven
>>
>> This is what I wrote;
>>
>> On Sunday 23 Nov 2008, nepal wrote:
>>> I'm not sure but this can be done safely. In your file
>>> manager navigate to /home/$USER/.kde/share/config
>>>
>>> In the list of files, find the file kwinrc, right click
>>> it with the mouse and select rename. rename it to
>>> something like kwinrc.old and hit enter. Rather than
>>> delete the file, this way you can always go back to it
>>> and change the name back to what it was if things don't
>>> work out.
>>
>> Try doing that to sort out your problem.
>>
>> "Is there a way to start over with original settings?"
>>
>> nepal.
>
>I did that before, Nepal, and when nothing seemed to change, I activated
>kwinrc my deleting the .old extension.  Just now I went back and
>repeated the process.  I just renamed the file to kwinrd.old.  I just
>don't know what to do next.  Nothing changed, I just have a page of
>configuration related files, I believe.
>
>Do I reboot to see what happens?  Do I close Dolphin?  As I received
>your email, I was trying to get into
>
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users to see if I
>could find your other response there; I forget the exact wording, but
>they said that address did not exist, more or less.  Anyway I did not
>find an archive of emails for the list, like I expected.  I am not
>trying to get any to work my problem for me; I go as far as I know.  I
>just am stumped.  After I send this reply, I will reboot and see what
>happens.  I don't know anything else to do.  Nonetheless, if I return
>and the problem is not resolved, do I delete
>/home/$USER/.kde/share/config?  Then do I have to reconfigure
>everything, email, Desktop settings, etc.?  Thanks!
>
>Steven

Steven, either there is a typu, or you did it wrong, its kwinrc, not kwinrd.

Hint, most of the services have a configuration file and this file is 
generally the services name + either a '.conf', '.rc' or just a plain 'rc'

-- 
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