These programs do not like changes of the home-directories:
netscape
gimp
star office
I am sure there are other similar programs, but i run into problems with
these. The problem is: instead of putting "$HOME" of "~/" in their *rc
files, these programs use the full path. In case the path to your
home-dir changes, you are out of luck... In my opinion this is a bug.
By the way, with "gimp" the bug is somewhat subtle - path to the directory
where gimp will hold its buffers is something like "your
homedir"/.gimp/tmp
If this dir does not exist, nothing happens, UNTIL you try loading some
really big picture. Then the gimp realises there is no such directory and
starts spawning the error-message windows which soon fill-in the while
window and block the window-manager.
In case you have another machine, you can log-in from outside and
kill the window-manager, otherwise you can just wait until the whole
memory gets exhousted and it crashes on its own.
Easiest way to avoid this is simply removing the .gimp dirs, so that it
gets re-made on next gimp start.
cu
Denis
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