I have Home on a separate partition. I want to install Manjaro and keep my Home.
System:
Host: shmuel-Kubuntu Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.5 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B365M-A v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1203
date: 10/10/2019
CPU:
Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: JMTek LLC. type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-42-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: a8:5e:45:e2:87:3c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 534.38 GiB (23.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD120 size: 1.82 TiB
You should delete the .kde hidden files in your home directory.
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As @Keruskerfuerst mentioned it’s not really recommendable to keep the old /home partition completely as there could occur issues when first starting applications with the old config data but as long as you install Manjaro with a different user name it should not be harmful at all. Don’t login using the old (still existing) user afterwards in this case but you still could copy some of the old files or at least have a look into old settings and configuration data which could be pretty useful. Just tell the installer not to format the /home partition and mount it as /home.
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What specifically do you want to keep? You can backup kde themes with transfuse . If you need files, you should be able to copy them after install. But i’d create a manjaro specific home, then you can try adding another user to use the ubuntu home.
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I like the way my panel is configured, and I also want to keep my Google Chrome profile, because of the logins. The rest of the config data can go.
Just compare the new configs with the old and try to adjust the new configs, accordingly. This is safer than just to copy the old configs as you could miss some details which are (potentially) different between Manjaro and Ubuntu.
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Shjim
17 August 2020 17:34
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Back up old home ( spare drive ) new install manjaro with new home and then take what your want from you old home … no fuss no mess
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The panel can be done with the transfuse. chrome config data is stored in /home/(user)/.config/chromium or /home/jecks-thinkcentre/.config/google-chrome just copy the folder over and you should be good.
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Can you post
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shmu26
17 August 2020 18:19
10
ls -la
total 1008
drwxr-xr-x 33 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 18:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 12 07:41 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 May 3 12:54 'Babylon Dicts for GoldenDict'
-rw------- 1 shmuel shmuel 19913 Aug 17 20:11 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 220 Apr 27 12:40 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 3771 Apr 27 12:40 .bashrc
drwxrwxr-x 47 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 18:38 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 45 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 19:31 .config
drwx------ 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Apr 30 22:40 .cups
drwx------ 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 18 22:19 .dbus
drwxr----- 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 18:25 Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 26 Jun 10 11:26 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 16 06:16 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 5 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 20:41 Downloads
drwx------ 10 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 12 10:13 .dropbox
drwxrwxr-x 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 12 10:13 .dropbox-dist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 21 Jun 4 15:43 .efax-gtk_addressbook
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 15 Jun 21 00:37 .efax-gtk_mainwin_save
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 11537 Jun 16 21:21 .efax-gtkrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 23725 Apr 27 17:59 .face
lrwxrwxrwx 1 shmuel shmuel 18 Apr 27 17:59 .face.icon -> /home/shmuel/.face
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 110 Jul 12 10:23 .fonts.conf
drwx------ 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 May 4 09:59 .gnome
drwx------ 4 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jul 13 08:44 .gnupg
drwxrwxr-x 4 shmuel shmuel 4096 May 4 12:19 .goldendict
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 269 Aug 17 18:12 .gtkrc-2.0
drwxr--r-- 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 22 15:58 .hardinfo
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 17 18:27 .hplip
drwxr----- 24 shmuel shmuel 16384 Aug 12 16:57 hplip-3.20.6
-rw------- 1 shmuel shmuel 0 Jun 8 17:35 .ICEauthority
drwxrwxr-x 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Apr 27 15:43 .kde
drwxrwxr-x 4 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 11 12:35 .local
drwx------ 5 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 16 11:43 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 22 23:01 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 15 21:57 Pictures
drwx------ 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Apr 30 10:31 .pki
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 807 Apr 27 12:40 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Apr 27 15:43 Public
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 71 Aug 16 06:59 'sambashare Win7'
drwx------ 3 shmuel shmuel 4096 Apr 30 22:16 .sane
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 9 09:39 smb4k
drwxr-xr-x 9 shmuel shmuel 4096 Aug 7 10:52 snap
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 30 Jul 2 10:54 .so_sane_state
-rw-r--r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 0 Apr 27 12:43 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxrwxr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 2 08:13 'System Volume Information'
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 8 17:35 Templates
drwx------ 6 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 1 16:40 .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x 2 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 23 07:24 Videos
-rw-rw-r-- 1 shmuel shmuel 291 May 15 16:44 .wget-hsts
-rw------- 1 shmuel shmuel 118 Aug 17 18:12 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 shmuel shmuel 745348 Aug 17 21:18 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 shmuel shmuel 32032 Jun 11 13:11 .xsession-errors.old
drwxrwxr-x 7 shmuel shmuel 4096 Jun 25 22:02 .zoom
You should really delete .kde.
And try if the desktop works.
.thunderbird and .mozilla belong to Thunderbird and Firefox and both should work as before.
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shmu26
17 August 2020 19:02
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So if I want to try my luck with a Transfuse backup, how would I do that? It seems to be an Arch-based app, not sure how to use it on Kubuntu to backup what I got now.
You can easily copy or rsync your home to another folder.
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