The problem seems to have something to do with my user-specific settings - a newly created user can launch gnome-appearance-settings without any problem. Can someone direct me to a way to debug what setting this might be and how I can fix that without deleting everything ".*" in my home directory?
Anyway, this seems to be an Etch-to-Lenny upgrade problem, nothing "important" in Lenny's packages itself. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]