On 07/07/13 09:44, Chris Walker wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:13:24 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote: [Snip]
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Just a stab in the dark. Try creating a new user. Log on as that user, and see if their settings "stick". If they do, start using that user (unless there's a reason why not to). You can copy the files to the new home directory and change their ownership with chown. Once you've done that, you can delete the old user, and change the name of the new user to the old user's name.
OK. That's easy enough to do but.... what do I do when I'm asked 'Create a private group for the user?' and also 'Specify user ID manually?' The choise I'm offered at that point is 500 which is the same group as mine.
I've not used your flavour of Linux at all, and not used KDE for years, so not exactly familiar with what questions you're asked, but, on Ubuntu & Lubuntu, all users get a private group created for them automatically, and the group ID and user ID are generated automatically unless you need to override them. I would expect you'd need to create a private group, and choose a new/free/empty group ID for them.
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There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?
This worries me. Could it be that this installation is completely SNAFUed? Presumably the version in the Virtual Machine doesn't behave like that? Do you have a lot of time/effort/customisation/data etc tied up in this install? Wondering if it would be an idea to format and re-install and try again? Or maybe try a live CD and see if that works OK.
Problem is I don't know enough about your installation to comment knowledgeably. Can anyone else help?
Good luck!
Steve