Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Yes, I noticed that on my home box. Will give it a try, when I can (I won't be accessing the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 > > cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 > > Nope. Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Benno -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: My best guess is that you didn't emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde It was emerged. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Didn't work. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: When kde started the first time, the wizard showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: > My best guess is that you didn't > emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgpg6anO9YTZe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > > rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 > > cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 > Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Your 3.3 preferences should have been transferred the first time you started 3.4, they were for me. My best guess i

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > When kde started the first time, the wizard > showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my > preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard started. -- Neil Bothwick The program

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my norma

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's  preferences! AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KD

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:45 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: > I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the > new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I > thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's > preferences! rm -fr ~/.k

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using > the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what > I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's >  preferences! AFAIK Gentoo allows to run two KDE versions independently. ~/.kde is prob

[gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-08-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
I had the disastrous idea of trying to update kde 3.3 to 3.4 using the new split ebuilds. I tried to reduce bloat by emerging only what I thought I really use. Now I have lost ALL my normal user's preferences! This is the kind of thing that can't be explained by a careless use of etc-update.