It was a great suggestion and I followed it through with the same idea. But, as I said, everything checked out.
I used to run Ubuntu and was very familiar with having to reinstall the O/S- but for, what, 3 years ? I have been spoilt by Zorin so I am into rusty territory now.
I don’t have too many apps etc to back up and all my docs and vitals are held on a portable drive, we also have 4 other machines here all backed up so it’s just my DT tweaks and settings.
I would sincerely like to thank both of you for your time and suggestions. I really appreciated it.
I still don’t know why the commands we inputed were not saved or actioned. Looking at everything it is exactly as it should be, yet that is not the reality. It is as if there is something else wrong that is stopping what we do in the keyboard settings from working. I guess that is one of the mysteries of the universe!