Panel Woes Solved

[Bill vance]

Howdy again folks;

I found a solution that you might want to implement for insurance.

I have a multi user setup, but the users are all email aliases for the
various lists
I'm subbscribed to.  That's also my reason for wanting to be root, (ease of
switching from one to another).  I virtuially never log on as one of
these, as doing so is a cumbersome, and time wasting procedure.

Anyway the way I solved my disapearing kde setup, was to log on as one of my
aliases, and lo, there it was a pristine setup.  So I used the
reviled, "sudo", to
copy the, ".kde", directory and a few other things over to my usual /home/self,
and the rest was a relatively simple matter of, "chown self
/home/self/.kde/*", and,"chgrp self /home/self/.kde/*".  You'll need
to do that for each, "/*", step
out to around ,"/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*", just stop when you get a, "no such file or
directory", error, and then log back in as yourself, and you're, "home", free.

So, the cure then is to create a bogus user, (if you don't have sonething you
can allready use as one), do all your usual system setups for the bogus one,
and you're done.   One each, emergency backup for your kde system.

Later, bye;

Bill