RE: [tlug] Lost my XWindows

["Charles Muller" <acmuller@example.com>]

Jim wrote,

> My concern is that there exists a utility which enables a user with
> limited experience to blow away the working of XWindows. This is the
> sort of trick that we regard as the preserve of the Satan of Seattle.
> It's one thing to become su and start editing files down in /etc. You
> *know* you are on your own then, but we expect GUIs and the like to be
> more bullet-proof.

It is interesting how this happened. I was using Evolution in the Ximian
desktop. All I wanted to do was change the font size for composing my
outgoing mail. On the recommendations of the Evolution support people, I
used the font preferences in the app, and it changed the fonts throughout
the desktop. I had no idea that this would cause a problem, of course, until
I tried to restart later on.


> Hopefully that utility made a backup of the original so that all Chuck
> has to do is restore it. Any Mandrake experts out there?

No utility. Since I do have a command line, I figured I could TAR the vital
directories, but for some reason, every time I try it with a directory that
has more than a few files, it crashes halfway through. ....arghhh!

But thanks, Jim. Eventually I'll get the hang of this. I am going to write
to the Ximian people to scream now.

Chuck