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JDMicklos
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 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: Gnome broken for one user |
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I was running gnome and trying to access an obnoxiously slow USB HD. My comp mostly locked up, so I tried to login in a new window (not nested, new window as in F8 ). In the new login, I didn't have any icons on my desktop, nor did I have a desktop background nor could I highlight by click and draging my mouse on the desktop. Now whenever I login to this user, I get the same thing (no desktop background or icons.... etc). But whenever I login as root, everything is fine. How do I fix this?
-Thanks!!!
-Jon
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noup
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this may not be the best solution, but you could try changing the name of the gnome dirs in your user folder (namely .gnome or .gnome2), and then start gnome so it rebuilds its dirs. this has the obvious disadvantage of destroying all your preferences (even though you can copy some files back afterwards).
another solution, if the problem is in the session (which i don't know), could be to delete your ~/.gnome2/session file. you should try this one first (and don't delete the session file, simply change its name).
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JDMicklos
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| noup wrote: | this may not be the best solution, but you could try changing the name of the gnome dirs in your user folder (namely .gnome or .gnome2), and then start gnome so it rebuilds its dirs. this has the obvious disadvantage of destroying all your preferences (even though you can copy some files back afterwards).
another solution, if the problem is in the session (which i don't know), could be to delete your ~/.gnome2/session file. you should try this one first (and don't delete the session file, simply change its name). |
It was the session file! Thank you very much! I have only been using gentoo linux for 3 months and I am already amazed, and quite frankly touched by the way an opensource community can work. Thank you for your help.
-Jon
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while(true==true)
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try
{
I think, therefore I am; //Descartes (duh-cart)
}
catch(yet my karma ran over my dogma)
{
break;
}
}
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noup
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| JDMicklos wrote: |
It was the session file! Thank you very much! I have only been using gentoo linux for 3 months and I am already amazed, and quite frankly touched by the way an opensource community can work. Thank you for your help.
-Jon |
you're welcome.
i just love that sense of community, too. 
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