OK. I managed to load imagemagik6. Not easy because my user account is still such a mess: Huge fonts ( cannot reduce), windows that block the whole screen and are difficult to move, a mess.
and
you need to pay attention when you use the commands that are suggested
as a single missing - (dash)
will give you this:
instead of the desired result
(you didn’t enter rm -rf sessions
you typed rm rf sessions)
Have you had a look at the program “mc” (Midnight Commander, a file manager)
to determine whether it could help you
by not requiring you to enter commands, for example?
Sorry - my bad - I made a typo
and you blindly copied the command and didn’t notice
the correct command is: rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4
(it means:
remove, forcibly and recursively everything in that directory and the directory itself)
not
rm - rf
but rm -rf
(no space between - and rf)
And once again - a console file manager like “mc” would have made this so much easier.
and this:
simply cannot be true if you have xfce installed
That directory definitely does exist.
ms@ms-nl4050cu you]$ rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4
[ms@ms-nl4050cu you]$ cp -r /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config
cp: cannot stat ‘/etc/skel/.config/xfce4’: No such file or directory
You tagged your post with “XFCE”
and you said you are running it and want to fix it.
Therefore, those files and directories in /etc/skel should be present.
But it appears they are not.
To make sure that they are present, install
manjaro-xfce-settings
pamac install manjaro-xfce-settings
or sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-xfce-settings
Then, this copy command will succeed - because those files are now definitely present. because you just installed them …
Also:
what you did - in your guest account - is not helpful at all.
You want to do these actions for your normal account - the one you try to fix.
What is your issue with it?
two panes, side by side
which makes copying from one location to another (or just comparing names) especially easy
for example … as in: cp -r /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config
(copying the default setting to the $HOME directory)
just navigate to the source on one side, to the destination on the other,
on the source directory, hit F5 (it’s labelled as “Copy” at the bottom row)
done.
every file and directory visible - no “hidden” files (those are the ones whose name is beginning with a dot
you navigate with the arrow keys, the Enter key, and change between the two panes with the TAB key
on the bottom is a menu - with numbers and names
on the top as well
you can drive everything with the mouse as well
OK thanks. I will install the xfce settings. What I did yesterday was under su. Isn’t it the same as doing it from my ailing account? at least I could copy paste what you gave me so as not to make mistakes.
So, instead, I made a mistake (now corrected) - and you copy/pasted without even noticing the error, because you do not understand what is being attempted.
It’s a very simple operation of removing existing, non working configuration
and replacing it with the defaults you started with when you installed the system.
What makes it a bit tricky is that this operation will likely be unsuccessful when you attempt to do it from within the session you are trying to fix.
→ log out and do it from TTY or from another account
be careful with su - you don’t want to end up with files owned by root in your home directory
I did install xfce settings from my owner account but got:
Error: Failed to commit transaction:
conflicting files:
-manjaro-xfce-settings: /etc/skel.xinitrc already exists in file system ( owned by manjaro-kde-settings)
This, I expect is due to the fact that to begin with I used KDE but lost access to it after some update. The help I received didn’t manage to restore it and finally made me use xfce but obviously there is a conflict.
Sorry for all this and many thanks for helping me
I would not have thought that these would conflict.
The easiest thing is to (at least temporarily) remove manjaro-kde-settings.
Or force the installation, the overwriting of existing files.
With this information we now know that you never had a proper Manjaro Xfce default configuration - just the default that Xfce provides.
You basically started from scratch.
Now you can use the Manjaro default, once you figured out how to get it installed.
Or you can start from scratch again: rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4
Yes, it does.
But not all the files will be removed if you do this while the session is running.
The result then feels like nothing at all happened.
The session cannot be running when you do this!
Here it is but I don’t care now about losing KDE if xfce works .
the msge is:
The current theme cannot be loaded:
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/breath/Main.qml:26:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module ‘‘org.kde.plasma.core’’: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/ kde/plasma/core/ libcrebindingsplugin.so: (/usr/lib/libkFSPackage. so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN15KPluginMetaData12 from)sonFilesERK7