Liane Praza wrote: > At least once every 6 months, usually more frequently, after I > live-upgrade, something wonky happens to my desktop. Sometimes I > lose desktop icons entirely. This time (70->74 upgrade) the icons > and their text are much bigger than previously, and my window title > bars are messed up. (Controls aren't left and right justified.)
Screenshots of bizarre behavior would help a lot I think. FWIW, I'm not sure Brian's approach is the way I'd tackle things. For theme related stuff, it's generally the 'gnome-settings-daemon' that has gone wrong, and it's relatively simple to restart this in your session. Use 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' to stop gconfd (It will restart when any application wants to access the gconf configuration database, which generally doesn't happen on an idle). Configuration for most of this stuff is usually in /desktop/gnome/interface. I'd start by backing those up, stopping the gconfd daemon, removing them from ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/... and pkilling gnome-settings-daemon (it will automatically restart). gnome-cleanup is the suck. It stops us from figuring out where the upgrade bugs are. Glynn
