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Pawel Debski
Asked: 2017-06-23 03:39:53 +0800 CST

How to reset Krusader configuration to defaults / remove corrupted config file?

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I have the problem described here: How to solve bleaching Krusader? and I want to reset Krusader configuration to fresh-install-like one. (unfortunately opening configuration and applying defaults does not help)

  1. How can I completely reset Krusader configuration to fresh-install-like one (preferably) or
  2. Remove Krusader config file (what's the name and where's it located?)

I tried to remove configuration files as described here: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-utils/krusader/config_files.html but:

$ qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation
qtpaths: could not find a Qt installation of ''

And no such files exist:

~/.config/krusaderrc
~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/krusader/krusaderui.rc

I do not believe that global config is screwed as this user has no access there nor this user is in sudoers list.

One important thing to mention is that when I start Krusader from terminal the following error message is printed:

$ krusader
krusader(6646)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: "libkonsolepart.so"

So it looks like there is some package conflict - before I had installed some other utilities krusader had worked as expected. See the exact description in linked question (bleaching Krusader).

kde

2 Answers

  1. apt-get purge krusader

    and removing ~/.config/krusaderrc for each user

    and then reinstalling 

    apt-get install krusader

    reverts Krusader to "factory default", showing the initial config dialog where you can set all the paths to the tools that Krusaders uses. That should erase all the config that exists.

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  2. I recommend you to update the locate database as root:

    sudo updatedb

    Then find the configuration file:

    sudo locate krusaderrc

    In mycase there were 3 files:

    /home/mysuer/.config/krusaderrc
/home/mysuer/.config/krusaderrc.lock
/root/.config/krusaderrc
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