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

[Steven Vollom]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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'
>
>   
I didn't notice that, but I did get it right, because it worked.  Do you 
know if I should delete the kwinrc.old file I created.  When I booted, I 
got the old configuration back.  I just have to remember this; it is 
such a sweet fix for this kind of problem.  Thanks for your continued 
interest, friend.  I am getting more confident I can learn this stuff 
every day.

Cordially,
Steven