[TriLUG] Strange UI Problem....

[William Sutton]

First off, that's really cool.  I mean...WACKED OUT COOL.  Err, sorry 
about the upper case.

Have you installed any new KDE-related software lately that might have 
changed a library?

William

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Brian Weaver wrote:

> I'm hoping that someone on the list might know what the f**k is going
> on with my desktop. I'm running RedHat 9 and I'm using KDE as my desktop.
> I'm not sure when, but I started noticing that all my 'Cancel' and 'OK'
> buttons on dialogs were reversed.
> 
> Normally the order should be from left to right, 'OK' then 'Cancel'. For
> some strange reason they are showing up in the reverse order for all the
> dialogs; Firebird, Thunderbird, KDE, etc. I figured that some setting
> might have gotten hosed, so I searched and upon finding no valid option
> in the KDE control panel I took some drastic action.
> 
> I went and blew away all the dot(.) directories that I thought might
> be even remotely related to KDE. I also took the time to clean up a lot
> of other directories that I knew were just left over from old software
> that I had tried. I did this work from a virtual console session after
> I logged out of KDE.
> 
> Now I have a brand new environment and the exact same problem. Does anyone
> have any ideas how to fix this. It seems like such a small thing, but it
> is really driving me nuts because it is backwards of any other system
> I work on.
> 
> -Weave
> 
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