installing 3.2 and keep home folder intact

[nublix]

Well, I followed the instructions (this time) and have installed 3.2 on this old box. Who knew kernel 4.4 x would work on it. Still, I had several hiccups along the way.

In tech years, the MB is quite old-2005 or earlier I think -so the computer just shuts itself down a few times during installation. Once during setting the partitions, twice when nearing the end of installation. I just start over again.

So now it seems fine. I updated fine and even got the widget on the dtop this time. But a couple of things I don't know if they should be of concern and if they'll keep popping up in the future.

1. At some point the keyboard stopped working and I could not right click with the mouse. Then I got this message:

Code:

Could not grab your keyboard. A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session
or you may have just clicked a menu or
some application just decided to get focus. Try again.

2. I thought to restart but here's what I got for that effort:

Code:

Logout error. Received error while trying to logout.
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Are these messages something to worry about?

I hard-rebooted and the mouse and keyboard were back in normal working order.

I tried to take a screen-shot of msg #2 which seemed fine but once I got back to the desktop, the file is now an empty text file.  ???.

I'm looking for the option to change the files in my home folder from icons to list. I don't see it in the usual place at the top right corner. Where may I find that?