On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 20:39 +0700, Philippe wrote: > Hi all, > > I will upgrade (fresh install) from FC2 to FC3. I know how to backup my > datas, but what about my desktop configuration. I mean, I have a top > panel full of icons and applets , and a bottom panel also. > Which files I must save and copy back to my gnome desktop on FC3, so I > will have the same desktop and panels at the end ? > > Philippe > -- > Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand > If you have a /home partition that does not get overwritten the configuration files for your desktop should not get changed. I have done this a couple times. Twice I did a restore from a tar file of my home directory, and another time I did a reinstall with /home as a separate partition. In all 3 cases the desktop stayed as I had it customized.
