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List:       kde-user
Subject:    How do I recover a Desktop?
From:       Joe Cooper <jcooper () pdq ! net>
Date:       1998-03-27 18:30:39
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I recently installed KDE (last night, in fact) and today I was running a
poorly behaved program that uses TCL/TK to build its graphic
interface--SLab 2.something.  It locked up, hard.  Froze X and the KDE
desktop, requiring a hard reset.  After coming back up (and doing the
fsck repairs on the disk), my users desktop is simply gone (I guess that
is the proper term for it).  KDE loads and the three default folders are
present on the screen, but the panel at the bottom is not, no programs
are accessible via the menus.  About the only functionality left is
switching between the 4 screens.  Everything else is gone.

I assume the way things went down was something like this:

KDE left some file (the file that defines the desktop) open.

SLab hits the kernel over the head.  Causing it to lose conciousness.

When the kernel regains conciousness, it can't remember that one little
thing it was thinking about at the moment of impact, in this case the rc
file for KDE?

So, the question is...How do I fix it?  And how do I keep it from
happening again?  (And...SLab never caused me to lose my desktop
settings under Afterstep, though it has locked the machine up, perhaps
this is a weakness in KDE?  If I had realized it was causing so much
strife I would have taken notes, so I could let the author of SLab know
about it, and optionally to inform the KDE folks of it.)

Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give on this.  I'd hate to
have to go back to AfterStep after discovering this nifty little gem.

--
Joe Cooper <jcooper@pdq.net>
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