3rd post .. blank window when saving, YaST2 issues (partially solved)
This is my 3rd post of this. Someone please take a look and help me out. While I was making preparations to back up all my files, I logged into Gnome as root and ... everything was fine! All the issues I had logging in as me were gone when I logged in as root. So, as root, I created a new user and then I logged in as that user and everything was still fine. No issues with YaST, saving Quanta Docs or anything. So the question is .. why did this happen? How did my original user name get screwed up? The second question is... I would like to transfer my ALL of my mail, accounts, and filters to the new user name. What is the correct procedure for doing this? Also, I have old mail backed up on a CD from an evolution installation on Mandrake 9.1. I would like to import these values into the new user install as well. I can handle setting up the mail accounts and filters again if I have to, but I would very much like to be able to have all this mail in one spot. Has anyone done this or is there an online tutorial on how to do this? I looked on Ximian's site but I didn't find anything. Thanks in advance, -=Thinker On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 18:48, Thinker wrote:
Earlier I posted a message about getting a blank window with nothing in it when I clicked to save a document in Quanta 3.1.3. I recently opened and tried to save a document in kwrite and kedit and I got the same result.
What is causing this and how do I fix it. I have updated everything via synaptic and ran SuSEconfig. I am still getting the error.
Please help.
-=Thinker
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:11, Thinker wrote:
When I try to save a document, I get a big blank screen with nothing on it. The only option is to click a button in the upper left corner to close that screen. Therefore, I can't save anything.
Any ideas?
-=Thinker
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 07:31, Thinker wrote:
This is my 3rd post of this. Someone please take a look and help me out.
While I was making preparations to back up all my files, I logged into Gnome as root and ... everything was fine! All the issues I had logging in as me were gone when I logged in as root. So, as root, I created a new user and then I logged in as that user and everything was still fine. No issues with YaST, saving Quanta Docs or anything. So the question is .. why did this happen? How did my original user name get screwed up?
The second question is... I would like to transfer my ALL of my mail, accounts, and filters to the new user name.
What is the correct procedure for doing this? Also, I have old mail backed up on a CD from an evolution installation on Mandrake 9.1. I would like to import these values into the new user install as well.
I can handle setting up the mail accounts and filters again if I have to, but I would very much like to be able to have all this mail in one spot.
Has anyone done this or is there an online tutorial on how to do this? I looked on Ximian's site but I didn't find anything.
Thanks in advance,
-=Thinker
Perhaps the .gnome* directories are messed up. Why not either rename them or remove them and login under your regular login name and see if that fixes your problems. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998
On 09/10/2003 07:31 PM, Thinker wrote:
This is my 3rd post of this. Someone please take a look and help me out.
I'll try, but I have never used gnome, so...
While I was making preparations to back up all my files, I logged into Gnome as root and ... everything was fine! All the issues I had logging in as me were gone when I logged in as root. So, as root, I created a new user and then I logged in as that user and everything was still fine. No issues with YaST, saving Quanta Docs or anything. So the question is .. why did this happen? How did my original user name get screwed up?
There are probably settings changed in one or more programs in gnome, which should be under .gnome. Try (as root, NOT logged in as the user in question) "mv .gnome gnome". Then, when you log in as your regular user, it will recreate this directory with default settings.
The second question is... I would like to transfer my ALL of my mail, accounts, and filters to the new user name.
No need, they should be under a different directory. They should all be there when you fix the gnome issues for your regular user.
What is the correct procedure for doing this? Also, I have old mail backed up on a CD from an evolution installation on Mandrake 9.1. I would like to import these values into the new user install as well.
Sorry, I don't use evolution. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
I am using the latest Gnome Desktop with ULB. I have both a .gnome and .gnome2 in my /home/user directory. I logged out of the username and logged into Gnome as root, opened a terminal and typed 1. cd /home/user 2. mv .gnome gnome Then I logged into gnome as the user and nothing had changed. I then repeated the above proceedure only this time using mv .gnome2 gnome2 and yes, a few of the shortcuts I had created were gone but the blank window when saving issue is still there. What should I try now? On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 08:42, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 09/10/2003 07:31 PM, Thinker wrote:
This is my 3rd post of this. Someone please take a look and help me out.
I'll try, but I have never used gnome, so...
While I was making preparations to back up all my files, I logged into Gnome as root and ... everything was fine! All the issues I had logging in as me were gone when I logged in as root. So, as root, I created a new user and then I logged in as that user and everything was still fine. No issues with YaST, saving Quanta Docs or anything. So the question is .. why did this happen? How did my original user name get screwed up?
There are probably settings changed in one or more programs in gnome, which should be under .gnome. Try (as root, NOT logged in as the user in question) "mv .gnome gnome". Then, when you log in as your regular user, it will recreate this directory with default settings.
The second question is... I would like to transfer my ALL of my mail, accounts, and filters to the new user name.
No need, they should be under a different directory. They should all be there when you fix the gnome issues for your regular user.
What is the correct procedure for doing this? Also, I have old mail backed up on a CD from an evolution installation on Mandrake 9.1. I would like to import these values into the new user install as well.
Sorry, I don't use evolution.
-- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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