[nflug] GNOME problems

[Bob Patterson]

good glad to hear it worked sorry i didnt help earlier i was gone for the
weekend in philly and didnt get the email

bob

On 7/3/07, K O <wpos2 at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
> 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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