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Mandrake 9 desktop changes from the terminal


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20-Feb-2006, 09:32 PM #1
Mandrake 9 desktop changes from the terminal
Hi there,
Bizarre situation - I've found out my sysadmin is slated to upgrade the OS on my workstation while I am away out of the country. Thing is that a couple of my friends decided to put some joke images of a prof of ours on as the desktop background, and my Mandrake account has been left logged in.
Does anyone know a way that I can either change the desktop or logout the desktop via the terminal (that is, so I can do it remotely via SSH)?
I don't even think the sysadmin would care, but I'd certainly sleep better knowing my desktop wasn't active when he went to change things.
Thanks
Dan
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21-Feb-2006, 04:39 AM #2
If you use KDE, just delete the .kde directory in your /home/<username>/ directory. It will create a new one with the default settings.
If Gnome, I dont know.
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