Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3288 mails)

[Jerry Houston <jerry.houston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen wrote:
> I'm to the point I was ready to completely delete Gnome and reinstall it but 
> then it seems to be that if I do the system could break with all my other 
> apps that need something from Gnome.
>   

I feel your pain.  I experimented a bit with the rotating cube desktop
effects, and somehow I got myself into a situation where my screen (in
KDE) was all white.  When I logged off and back on, the startup music
played, and everything seemed normal, except I couldn't see the
background, icons, task bar ... everything was all white.  (Now I know
what "this is very experimental" means!)

In my case, Gnome worked just fine, but I really don't care much for
Gnome.  So I edited a config file and changed back to Xorg, then KDE
worked again, but of course, no rotating cube.  After a day or so of
trying everything I could think of to get things working again, I
finally just gave up on the rotating cube desktop, and I'm happily using
KDE again without the damned cube.

> 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.
>   

YaST offers the opportunity to *update* an installation, rather than
remove it and start over.  Have you tried that?   It just might work,
especially if it restores your Gnome configuration back to original
default settings.

You could do a lot worse than to use KDE, if that's working well for
you, but I understand wanting to get back to an environment you feel
comfortable with.  Good luck with it!
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