Timothy Bolz wrote:
> 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.
The directories' size is probably not your problem.
As Jamie and Roger said, it's most likely that your config files are
owned by the wrong user. (Maybe you ran the panel while su'd once and
root owns the files now.)
Anyway, do something like this.
% su
Password:
# chown -v -R yourname.yourgroup ~/.gnome/
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