On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, 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. Each directory has a a file size of 1024 and this one particular > directory .gnome has a file size of 19456. What is causing it to grow like that? are there any particular files that are being added to on a constant basis?
>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. chown -R user will do that. >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. well with the exception of metadata.db they are mostly text files, so you could read them and figure out what's wrong, remember if you find a bug you should send a bug report with all the details needed to reproduce the problem to the maintainers of the package...
