Re: [gentoo-user] Arrh - my KDE "look" has disappeared

[Andrew Lowe]

On 29/07/2014 3:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:47:55 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>
>> 	Fired up the 'puter last night and instead of a backdrop
>> showing the dog doing something stupid, a task bar, the start button
>> thingy, and a few other bits and pieces, I had the default KDE
>> backdrop. The task bar was on the second screen, the backdrop was the
>> default, there was no start button etc. What's happened?????? Obviously
>> KDE has freaked out in some way, but how? Where are the files that
>> configure the look and feel of my desktop kept? I've looked in
>> ~/Desktop and ~/.kde4 and there was nothing there.
>
> The files should be in ~/.kde4/share/config, so if ~/.kde4 is empty you
> have a problem. Let's hope you also have a backup.
>
>
	Had a look, "everything" appears to be there - no idea as to why I 
originally said ~/.kde4 was empty. The dates on all of the files are all 
over the place, that is from some time last year when I built the 
machine up to basically now so it looks like they are the correct files.

	Is there an environmental/system variable that should point to ~/.kde4 
that I should check to see is correct?

	Andrew