good glad to hear it worked sorry i didnt help earlier i was gone for the weekend in philly and didnt get the email<br><br>bob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">K O</b> <<a href="mailto:wpos2@roadrunner.com">
wpos2@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bob:<br><br>That worked! Now I just have to reset background wallpaper and stupid
<br>stuff like that. Thanks to Paul too for your input. Fortunately the<br>rabbit hole this time was not that deep.<br><br>Bob Patterson pisze:<br>> the same thing happened to me recently and to get it working again i
<br>> just reset the gnome variables and session variables by deleting them<br>><br>> rm -rf .gnome*<br>> rm -rf .gconf*<br>> and rm session var i for get what it is called<br>> do it on another login or a terminal by login by doing ctrl+alt+F1 and
<br>> then ctrl+alt+F7 to get back<br>><br>> tell me if this helps<br>> bob<br>> <a href="mailto:bob.rowing@gmail.com">bob.rowing@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bob.rowing@gmail.com">bob.rowing@gmail.com
</a>><br>><br>> On 7/2/07, *paul* <<a href="mailto:paul@paulcosta.com">paul@paulcosta.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:paul@paulcosta.com">paul@paulcosta.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> K O wrote:
<br>> > Folks:<br>> ><br>> > I'm having a problem with GNOME on my laptop. I have lost the title<br>> > bar in my apps, not allowing even moving their windows, as well<br>> as the
<br>> > ability to switch desktops. (My pre-defined keystrokes don't work,<br>> > and the applet in the panel is not visible.) If it matters, then<br>> it's<br>> > a Fedora 7 system.
<br>> > 1. This happened after a boot from a cold start.<br>> > 2. No updates were performed during the last successful boot.<br>> > 3. KDE comes up fine.<br>> > 4. GNOME under a different username comes up fine.
<br>> > 5. I ran yum to update. No visible results.<br>> > 6. I uninstalled and reinstalled gnome-panel and all<br>> dependencies.<br>> > Again, no visible results.<br>> > 7. I booted off an Ubuntu cd and ran fsck. No errors.
<br>> > 8. Windows appear in the upper left hand corner on top of the<br>> panel.<br>> > 9. Mouse pointer position determines active windows. I didn't<br>> have<br>> > this option selected before.
<br>> > 10. The window list will show the app as it's being launched, then<br>> > disappears once it's running.<br>> > 11, I've tried different themes with the same result.
<br>> ><br>> > Also, something I feel worth mentioning is that after upgrading to<br>> > Fedora 7, a 2 cm ^2 patch in the upper left hand of the screen<br>> > appears. It almost looks like an area of inverted colors. That
<br>> area<br>> > is accessible (tho unseen), and disappears after a minute or 2.<br>> > Again, this does not happen under a different username, or<br>> KDE. Also,<br>> > GNOME has been a bit flaky under Fedora 6, but there was nothing a
<br>> > relogin didn't usually fix. Not so now.<br>> ><br>> > I don't really know where to begin. I don't even know how to google<br>> > this one. All I suspect for now is that some config file within the
<br>> > home directory got borked. I could really use a snausage to get<br>> me in<br>> > the right direction. (My dog could use a snausage too, but here pure<br>> > people food lust is at play.) As always, I thank you kindly for
<br>> > whatever you can tell me to help.<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > nflug mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org
</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a>><br>> > <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>> ><br>> I think it would be faster to just reinstall Gnome instead of spending
<br>> hours looking for a fix<br>> However, I would list my important profile settings before an<br>> install so<br>> I could set them back to where they were<br>> If it continues after a reinstall, then I would look into it more.
<br>> Sounds like one of the Gnome files may be corrupted or a bad link.<br>> I have found that trying to trace these types of problems just leads u<br>> down the rabbit hole<br>> and a reinstall is more productive- the architecture is irrelevant to me
<br>> in these situations<br>><br>> That is how I would approach the problem, but thats me<br>><br>> Peace<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list
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