Windowmaker killed GNOME (help!)

[Scott]

Bill Marcum wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:49:03 +0100, Eamonn Sullivan 
>  <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 15/10/05, Scott <angrykeyboarder at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Actually, my dinkin' around in Windowmaker, probably killed GNOME.
>>>
>>> I was toying around in Windowmaker last night and noticed one of the
>>>menus was "Window Managers", so I checked it out and noticed that
>>>Metacity was there, which I found odd.
>>>
>>> So I clicked on it and suddenly my GNOME desktop appears (sans
>>>gnome-panel) and I find I can't undo it, so I ctrl+alt+backspace which
>>>leaves me at the shell (sometimes it restarts X, I can never figure out
>>>it's logic...).
>>>
>>> Then I tried "start x" which got me nowhere, so I rebooted.
>>>
>>>      
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>startx should be written as one word.
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LOL. You're right. I should know.  I've done it a zilion times.

>>> When GNOME started I got the splash screen, followed by the desktop
>>>background and then the panels started to appear, but they didn't get
>>>very far and "retreated". Then they tried again with the same result.
>>>They tried several more times and finally gave up, leaving me with a
>>>completely blank desktop and no right-click menu.
>>>
>>> Any idea how I can fix this other than reinstalling GNOME? I'm sure
>>>there is some configuration file somewhere that I could tweak/correct.
>>>      
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>I haven't tried Breezy yet, does the login screen still allow you to 
>choose a session?
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>Yes and that's why I've been in KDE for the past three days. ;-)
>
Scott