On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Allen wrote:-
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>So does anyone have any idea what happened? Is my system now doomed to having
>to just deal with this? WindowMaker and KDE and everything else work just
>fine but if I want to use Gnome I can't really, it's like everything is gone
>that I did with it.
First thing to do is to check and see if it's Gnome that's broken, or
just some config file specific to your user account. The way to test
that is to create another user and use the new account to start up a
Gnome session. If it's Gnome that's broken, the new account will have
the same problems your normal account has. If not, the new account will
have the normal Gnome desktop.
If it's just inside your account that Gnome is broken, you can get a
default desktop back by logging out from the desktop, logging in using
one of the text consoles (ALT-F1 to ALT-F6) and then using the
commands[0]:
mv ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome2.orig
mv ~/.gnome2_private ~/.gnome2_private.orig
This will ensure that when you log back in to your desktop, you get the
defaults applied. Then it's just a case of copying the config files back
from .gnome2.orig into .gnome2, and also from .gnome2_private.orig to
.gnome2_private, until you find the change that breaks the desktop.
>Has anyone ever seen this before? I'd really like to fix it back to the way it
>was before or even the default SUSE look where I at least have task bars and
>icons.
Not with Gnome, but I've seen others request help when they've mucked up
their KDE desktops. In that case, I'd say move the ~/.kde to ~/.kde.orig
and go through the same procedure.
[0] This is a bit of a guess. I don't have Gnome installed, but I do
have both a .gnome2 and .gnome2_private directory, and the developer
docs for Gnome mentions .gnome and .gnome_private as locations to store
config files. My guess is that nobody has updated the page source with
the new directories.
Regards,
David Bolt
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