Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:18:00PM CDT > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Donnie, anyone with some Gnome experience, know how to get out of this one? > > It has never happened to me, everything always works great for me. > That's why I am a dev, weird local issues don't happen. =)
Well if you bang on this stuff, you learn things. If I rename ~/.gnome2 to .gnome2.old, kill gnome-panel and start a gnome session, I get a gnome session _with_ my old panels in place, but with no icons on them (although gnome still hangs on exit and I have to Ctl-Alt-Backspace to kill it). Also I have another very bare account (user 'test') which is basically virgin. I can log into that with a gnome session and everything, including evolution, seems to work OK. So there are inconsistencies in my current config which are causing problems and I want to be as surgical as possible in removing them, salvaging as much as I can. I don't want to nuke my fmouse account and start completely over so perhaps someone could tell me which files and directories I can rename or move which will cause gnome to re-initialize itself. I seem to remember that there's a particular file somewhere which either the presence or absence of will cause gnome to assume that it's being installed in a fresh account and (re)build all its configuration files from scratch. Same question goes for evolution. Is it possible to move/rename files (~/.evolution, maybe others) so that evolution will think it's running on a new account? Is it possible to import calendar, mail account and contact lists from an old evolution configuration into a new one? It's going to take me a long time to rebuild all this stuff but I don't have any choice. I'm just going to have to do it, but any advice on these config issues will be GREATLY appreciated! -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
