[nflug] GNOME problems

[K O]

Bob:

That worked!  Now I just have to reset background wallpaper and stupid 
stuff like that.  Thanks to Paul too for your input.  Fortunately the 
rabbit hole this time was not that deep.

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