Well, its pretty tuff, to understand exactly what is going on here, but I doubt its a problem with X, since root can log in and everything is ok. What I would do is first go read documentation, but I doubt you want to do that so then I would do: "ls -a" and delete all the .gnome directories in your users home directory. Then try and restart gnome, this will give you a fresh start. Another method is as root add a new user like "testacct" root@wherever$useradd testacct then log in as the testacct, again do ls -a, and compare that listing to your home directory. Then as testacct, start gnome, and see if it works. You can probally figure it out from here. Hope that helps. -Chris On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] szonyi calin wrote:
> --- Chris Rodliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�: > > > This may not be quite the right list, but I'm > > getting desperate. > > My Gnome desktop has gone catatonic. First I lost > > the pager, then > > the bar with the applets (can't remember its name). > > Quitting & > > reloading X wouldn't bring it back. I tried > > switching window managers > > (which is always a mistake) and now all I get when I > > start X is (I think) > > Sawmill, with icons for Nautilus and the Trash can. > > If I start Nautilus > > the title bar is off the top of the screen and I > > can't get it down. > > The right mouse button works but the centre button > > does nothing, > > so I can't get any applications, the only way I can > > get out of X > > is Alt-Ctrl-F2. > > > > (If I log in as root, which happens to be configured > > for KDE, > > everything works). > > > > So the problem seem to be Gnome ... :-) > > I think removing the gnome directories *in your > home directory* _might_ make gnome behave until > you experiment again :-) > > > Also reading documentation before experimenting > is a good idea :-) > > > > > OK, what I *want* to do at this stage is delete some > > config files so > > X will start with the default settings. But I > > don't want to delete > > the wrong files and kill X altogether. I have a > > heap of emails I > > don't want to lose, for starters. Can anyone > > help? > > > > I don't think you want to start with the default > setting of X :-). Maybe with the default setting > of Gnome :-) > > The default setting of X is to start twm. That's > why distributions change it to something more > "user friendly" :-) > > > cr > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at > > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at > http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > ===== > -- > The UNIX Hierarchy - Beginner > - insecure with the concept of a terminal > - has yet to learn the basics of "vi" > - has not figured out how to get a directory > - still has trouble with typing <RETURN> after each line of input > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
