28 Jun
2018
28 Jun
'18
10:31 p.m.
On Thursday 28 June 2018, Michael wrote:
On Thursday 28 June 2018 12:25:08 pm dep wrote:
Michael
I do the same thing plus, I do a luckybackup to a dir in my backups dir
called "Fast_Restore" and save all of the important files such as share,
config etc.
I also use krusader to compress everything to backups.
We also have tons of blackouts here (top of a mountain), but in the last 20
years since I started doing that I have not lost any significant data.
dep...
Once you have everything the way you want it. Just plain old tar your user dir
to a backup dir. It might take up a wee bit of space but it will be worth it.
Good luck lad,
Kate
My first thought is to purge Unity and lightdm,
but it might be that this
won't solve the problem, and that someone here who is familiar with the
macinations of X and such might have a sense of where there's a
configuration file that is causing this to happen.
Anybody know?
Specifics of X are outside my KB, but you could try reinstalling TDE to get
the configs back.:
# apt install --reinstall kubuntu-default-settings-trinity
kubuntu-desktop-trinity
Downside is you lose anything you've custom configured :(
It's also possible, as those are meta packages, that you'll need to
# aptitude show kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-desktop-trinity
and then individually --reinstall select package(s).
If you're willing to --reinstall the whole box, there's Google posts on how
to do that with Ubuntu.
Post Script on power outs:
I've found it best to always (even if it's said it's not needed) to do all
my config changes, then do a reboot to 'lock' them in. IDK, disk caching?,
but I've seen enough similar behavior (crash, even days later, and configs
are odd upon re-start) that I'd rather waste the 5 minutes for the reboot
than go digging back into xyz to re-find out how to set up something.
Best,
Michael
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