I've been having problems with gnome and I think I'm getting close to finding out why. When I want to change backgrounds it will not change. Anything to do with the gnome controll center doesn't work. If I change to a different user I can do the things I want to do. I started compare the directories and files of the good and the problem user and found what I think might be the problem. Each directory has a a file size of 1024 and this one particular directory .gnome has a file size of 19456. What I'd like to do is copy a .gnome directory from another user but when I do this the ownership remains. I know there is a tar command which changes ownership recursively. Does anyone know it. Or is there a way to straighten out the file size for that directory and sub directories. I've been wondering why I install something in the panel and the next time I boot up there gone. And I am not able to change the backgrounds.
Another question does anyone out there use alsa for sound? My sound is messed up and I'd like to get it going again. Thanks Tim
