Yes, two kitties trying to help a wounded bird at the same time can cause confusion. I will leave you and Bald Brick to sort this out. I'm outta here. Good luck.
Scaredy cat
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So Bald Brick -
You can't rename .kde4.old (or .kde4_old) to .kde4 if .kde4 already exists, and if you remove .kde4 it will immediately be recreated. Nevertheless, in most cases a command like
Code:
rm ~/.kde4 && mv ~/kde4.old kde4
will work, because the system won't have time to create a new .kde4 between the two parts of the command. If it still doesn't work when you run it from within KDE, it will if you run it in a tty. (Just hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in as your normal user, run the command, and hit Ctrl+Alt+F8.)
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I used Pardus (a bit faster than the livecd and much like Pclos) and managed to restore the original .kde4 thanks to your detailed post.
And when I rebooted I actually got into my original Minime opening screen - but the
Loading screen came up and then it stalled and hung.
Whither now?
