On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Allen wrote:- <snip>
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.
First thing to do is to check and see if it's Gnome that's broken, or just some config file specific to your user account. The way to test that is to create another user and use the new account to start up a Gnome session. If it's Gnome that's broken, the new account will have the same problems your normal account has. If not, the new account will have the normal Gnome desktop. If it's just inside your account that Gnome is broken, you can get a default desktop back by logging out from the desktop, logging in using one of the text consoles (ALT-F1 to ALT-F6) and then using the commands[0]: mv ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome2.orig mv ~/.gnome2_private ~/.gnome2_private.orig This will ensure that when you log back in to your desktop, you get the defaults applied. Then it's just a case of copying the config files back from .gnome2.orig into .gnome2, and also from .gnome2_private.orig to .gnome2_private, until you find the change that breaks the desktop.
Has anyone ever seen this before? I'd really like to fix it back to the way it was before or even the default SUSE look where I at least have task bars and icons.
Not with Gnome, but I've seen others request help when they've mucked up their KDE desktops. In that case, I'd say move the ~/.kde to ~/.kde.orig and go through the same procedure. [0] This is a bit of a guess. I don't have Gnome installed, but I do have both a .gnome2 and .gnome2_private directory, and the developer docs for Gnome mentions .gnome and .gnome_private as locations to store config files. My guess is that nobody has updated the page source with the new directories. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | RISC OS 3.11 | RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org