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9.3

KDE 3.4 "Configure Desktop" stopped working, various settings changed

Asked by martin in Mandrake Linux, Linux Setup

Tags: linux Mandriva KDE kcmshell kdelibs

I am running Mandriva 2006 with KDE 3.4
Yesterday I upgraded OpenOffice from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1: I can't think of anything else that I changed.

Today I noticed that various desktop settings have changed: mouse sensitivity, keyboard repeat, Caps Lock no longer acts as Ctrl, and Firefox looks different.

If I right-click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop", nothing happens but the following lines appear in .xsession-errors:

kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'background'.
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'desktopbehavior'.
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'desktop'.
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'screensaver'.
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'display'.

Also, lots of menu items have disappeared from the KDE menu
(System, Configuration, KDE)
I tried rebooting to a recent backup of the root partition, but the problem appears there also. I tried restoring the old version of OpenOffice (which is in /opt which is a symlink to /home/opt),
but this didn't help. Restoring $HOME/.kde from a backup also didn't work.

Installing a new version of Linux, or KDE, is not an option for this
machine. I don't mind going back to the old version of OpenOffice
if that turns out to be the problem (since I hardly use it).

I have backups of my home directory: I can't see any differences that would affect this.

Any ideas as to how I can solve this problem?

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