Starting Over

Randy.Dunlap rdunlap at xenotime.net
Wed Feb 8 20:37:37 CET 2006


On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> > I would like to delete XFCE4 and reinstall it.  The reason is that, when
> > last I logged onto xfce4 the desktop selector was missing from the panel
> > and when I called up more than one Internet-using application, the
> > desktop froze.
>
> Using a sledgehammer to to pound in a nail rarely turns out well.  Why do
> you think that your entire XFCE installation is at fault?  Is this problem
> present for multiple users?  Which version of XFCE do you have installed?

yes.

> > I am using SuSE 10.  How do I delete and reinstall the latest XFCE4 for
> > this system?
>
> Depends on how you installed it.

One full sledgehammer answer:
in text/console mode, as root:

run yast; do software package management;
delete all xfce packages; install all xfce packages;
exit yast; startxfce4

-- 
~Randy



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