Desk top missing

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 07:41 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > > --- Bill Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Big Snip,
> > > Maybe some kde users like Derek
> > can
> > > offer some help to us, hopefully. 
> > 
> > What I would probably end up doing is create a new
> > *administrative* 
> > user (so the new userid can sudo). Log in as the new
> > user, copy the 
> > previous user directory to the new user directory
> > (like under a ~/temp 
> > folder or ~/oldhome). Then use the utilities to
> > delete the old user, and 
> > recreate the old username as an administrative user
> > and copy the old 
> > data to the now recreated username.
> > 
> > It may not restore the data to the exact same state,
> > but it may fix the 
> > problem you're seeing. Using chown -R back to the
> > proper ownership after 
> > each step should give you access to your data.
> > 
> > That's one possible fix, though.
> > 
> Thanks Bart, for your reply and answer. I'm not sure
> I'm up to the fairly complex task you provide.  But I
> will keep your response in my Debian folder to use
> whenever I get the courage to try it.  Thanks again
> for you efforts,
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

I don't use KDE but i don't think it should be that complicated.