Preserving your home directory? READ THIS!
In SimplyMEPIS 6.0 RC 1, we have improved the way MEPIS handles pluggable devices, such as USB keys and CD drives. The changes will not take effect properly if the home directory has been preserved, so if you preserve your home directory, you will need to do some tweaking to restore the KDE defaults. This applies whether you upgrade from the pools or perform a fresh install. The RC 1 ISO and the updated MEPIS pools should be available Thursday, 6/15/06.
Note: Restoring the KDE defaults will revert all of the settings for KDE and K apps back to the default MEPIS configuration. If you use KMail, you will lose your user accounts, but you will not lose your email. If you use Kontact, you will lose any settings you have customized, but you will not lose your address book. Any non-K apps, such as Firefox and Thunderbird, should not be affected.
1. Go into MEPIS System Settings - MEPIS - User Tweaks. Under Restore Defaults, check the box beside KDE app configs. Click OK.
Note: There are 2 boxes under Clear Data that are checked by default. One will delete your recently used documents and commandline apps, and the other deletes your browser's history and cache. Uncheck these unless you are sure you want to delete these files.
2. Close all open apps then do CTRL-ALT-Backspace to abort the KDE session. DO NOT LOGOUT.
3. When you login, pluggable devices should work better.
For Expert Users ONLY: If you want to manually tweak your system, you need to delete the files medianotifierrc, if it exists, and kdesktoprc in ~/.kde/share/config. We also recommend that you delete kickerrc, but that may not be necessary.
