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:
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>> Gene Heskett wrote:
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>
>   
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Now that its working, you might want to rename the newly made file to 
> a 'name'.new, and take the .old off the other one & restart x to see if the 
> miss-behaviour is back.  If it is, reverse the naming back to where it was, 
> re-start x again, and delete the old one at your convenience.  With the wrong 
> name, is isn't going to hurt anything to leave it, other than waste a 
> kilobyte or 5 of disk space.  20 years ago when floppies were 360k, and 
> machines had only 64k of ram, we worried about every byte, but a little lint 
> laying around on a 100Gb drive doesn't amount to much.  And you have learned 
> something. :)
>   
>> Cordially,
>> Steven
>>     
There was no new file called kwinrc, only the file kwinrc.old. Should I 
leave things as they are or remove the .old?
Steven