Starting Over

[Fabian Nowak]

hi!

mv ~/.config ~/dot.config && mv ~/.xfce ~/dot.xfce

before logging into xfce. then anything will be the default setup. if
your problems do persist when retrying all things that failed
previously, you can really try to 'rpm -e xfce*' or something like that.
'man rpm' is your friend. 

you can also search in yast for any packages having an xfce in their
name and deinstall/install them. (yast -> install software -> Alt-s ->
xfce -> OK -> deselect what to deinstall; deinstall it and repeat the
whole process afterwards for installing).

hth, fabian


Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2006, 14:46 -0500 schrieb Net Llama!:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> I am using SuSE 10.  How do I delete and reinstall the latest XFCE4 for
> > >> this system?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Depends on how you installed it.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks for answering me so quickly! This is a single-user installation.
> 
> running adduser takes about 2 seconds.  surely that would be less time
> than reinstalling everything only to find out that the problem was with
> your one user's configuration.
> 
> > I think I have the latest bug-fixed version of XFCE4, which I installed
> > over a previous version of XFCE4 for SuSE 9.2 (which functioned ok when
> > I upgraded). The abruptness of the change in the desktop in terms of the
> > bottom-of-screen panel (missing the desktop icons) and behavior with
> > applications made me think that tinkering with the set-up would probably
> > take a great deal of time and produce testiness and frustration. In such
> > a case, burning down the building and rebuilding it to specs is better
> > than finding why the thing malfunctions and then hoping that that was
> > the only thing, so that repairing it would be enough.
> 
> Unless you're hitting a bug in the version of XFCE that you have
> installed, and the version you intend to (re)install is newer, and that
> bug is fixed, reinstalling is going to be a waste of time.
> 
> 
>