desktop comfigure issue??

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:03 +1100, Y Uanlux wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 10:01 AM, Khoa Ton <khoa at puresynergy.com> wrote:
> > Khoa Ton wrote:
> > > Y Uanlux wrote:
> > >> Hi
> > >> I am using gnome on Fedora 7 (updated to latest versions). One day I
> > >> incidentally deleted many file at my home dir /home/usr1 by a command
> > >> rm -rf *
> > >>
> > >> Of course most files, except some symbolic linked ones and hidden ones
> > >> (eg .jpilot etc), were remove. After rebooted, I put back some
> > >> settings.  However, there is a desktop problem. Every thing created at
> > >> the home dir /home/usr1/ is put on desktop, making the desktop very
> > >> crowed. How to fix it?
> > >> Y
> > >
> > > What I did when my desktop got messed up and wanted to get back to
> > > the default was to create a new user and logged on at that user.
> > >
> > > At logon, the desktop manager creates all the desktop configuration
> > > files.  Then, I renamed the new user's home directory to my old
> > > user's home and move my personal files over.
> > >
> Thanks for your alternative. I assume you move personal files (for
> example, .gnome etc) from the new home dir to the new one??
> 
> 
> > > I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but this is the
> > > surest way to get back to the default desktop environment.
> 
> I hope some one can offer an additional solution too.
> 
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Khoa
> >
> > Oops, forgot to mention you'll have to chown the home directory
> > to your old user as well.
> >
> >
> > Khoa
The easiest way to do this is to tar up your home directory and then use
the -k option to untar it in the new directory, which installs only
files that don't already exist.
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