Customizations lost ..

[New Guy]

I have no backup. I had a problem whereby I lost my mouse. As a result
I did a reset (reset button). When I rebooted, my desktop is back to the
initial default ( looks like gray scale sun rays coming out from lower
right hand corner) and all icons etc gone. Besides restoring some file
from backups, is there any other way to restore my previous
customizations?

TIA

Newbie and a half.

P.s. Assuming I get things back to where they were one way or other,
whick files do I need to backup ?

[Bit Twister]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:33:07 -0500, New Guy wrote:

> P.s. Assuming I get things back to where they were one way or other,
> whick files do I need to backup ?

Depends on KDE version/release and what customizations were made.

All my customizations wind up in ~37 files for kde 4.10.1 and Plasma.

My suggestion, create a new test account, say junk. Log into junk.
cd ~/.config
touch -t $(date --date="yesterday" +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) *

cd ~/.kde*/share/config
touch -t $(date --date="yesterday" +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) *

Now, go through all your customizations. Once, done do a
ls -Al * | grep "$(date '+%b %d')"

Run cat each_file_here for the above files, to see if you really want
to back it up.

cd ~/.config
ls -Al * | grep "$(date '+%b %d')"