On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:25:05 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 09/04/14 19:48, Chris Walker wrote:
I haven't investigated this yet but it's approaching the time when I stuff a DVD in and re-install the OS. I have a full backup which I write yesterday using rsync (I made a note of the commands to use when I asked the question here several months ago) and which I can look at successfully. I'm prepared to give it a few more goes to fix it as I'd like to know what went wrong, in case it happens again but I suspect I will have it working one way or another by the weekend. Thanks to both of you for sticking with it this far.
I'm thinking it's almost time to trash it and start again. Be absolutely sure you've got all the files backed up first though!!!!!!!
I bunged in the latest 64 bit DVD and told it to re-install. I found one reason for a problem I'd had in the past and that's the choice of language. I think I must have selected American (British) rather than Europe (British).
Also, just make sure you don't restore all the display config files otherwise you could restore the problem.
I did another rsync so have a full copy of all the important files. In rsync I excluded dev,proc,sys,tmp,run,mnt and media.
I think you've reached the limit of how much I can help as I don't know your distro, and haven't played with xorg config files for ages. Good luck!
If you do decide to trash & reinstall, make a list of all packages that you've installed. This can save some time when you reinstall, as you can install all (or most) of the packages in one go. Depends on your packakging/install system though.
That bit was easy. I fired up kmenueditor and made a couple of changes. That then saved a file applications-kmenuedit.menu in /home/chris/.config/menus/
But having done all that, it's just the same!
So it's time to bite the bullet and wipe the thing and start again. I thought that re-installing would clear out the rubbish but I guess not. I think from this that I can say it *is* something in *my* config somewhere that's doing this rather than the system config. But I've had enough of trying to fix it and just want to get back to using it. So I'm about to press the button.