Re: Desktop problem

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On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote:
>    On 08/14/2010 06:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> I have a shell script I use to "reset" my default desktop environment.
>> It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories
>> and so on.  To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back in.
>>
>> [tcameron@case ~]$ cat ~/bin/cleardots
>> #!/bin/bash
>> ls -ad .* | egrep -v
>> "bash|elluminate|evolution|gnupg|mozilla|pan2|procmail|purple|rpmmacros|sig|ssh|skype|thunderbird|vpngui"|xargs
>> rm -rf
>>
>> Hope this makes sense to you.  It resets my desktop back to defaults
>> while keeping my important dot files.
>>
>> On 08/14/2010 12:56 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Using default install..
>>>
>>> Gnome desktop
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/14/10, binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx<binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>      On 08/14/2010 11:22 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Fedora 12 and something happen to the desk top
>>>>>
>>>>> I no longer have the icons in the upper left corner of my desk top.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had a firefox crash a couple days ago.  I wonder if the two are
>>>>> connected..
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, is there an easy way to get the menu back?
>>>>>
>>>>> Firefox had its own icon so I can still do email.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess I could revert back to an earlier kernel and see if everything
>>>>> is OK there?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>>
>>>>> Marvin
>>>> It sounds like your using KDE-4.
>>>>
>>>> Start over with your desktop by deleting .kde and logout than log back
>>>> in and reform your desktop.
>>>>
>>>> When reforming your KDE Panel put the Task manager on first, System
>>>> Tray, Digital Clock, Notifier and so on,
>>>> and in that sequence.
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>
> You must know that
> .* matches
> the directory .
> and the directory ..
>
> To wit:
>
> $ echo .*
> . ..  .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl
>
> Notice . and .. ???
>
> If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use
> .[a-zA-Z]*
>
> $ echo .[a-zA-Z]*
> .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl
> I have a bazillion dot files in my home dir. I only copied and pasted a few.

To be clear:

[tcameron@wintermute ~]$ cleardots
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'
rm: cannot remove `.' or `..'

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