Howto reset a Gnome user profile??

[Seth Hasani]

<quote who="Senectus ." on Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:27:54AM EST>

> > I usually just drop to a shell then do:
> >
> >     mkdir oldconfig mv .g* oldconfig/ rm .esd_auth rm .ICEauthority rm
> >     .Xauthority
> 
> I followed these instructions, and it had no effect, exactly the same
> result :-/ I'm not sure if I mentioned this earlier or not, but to run a
> little test I created a new user, and logged in as that user, the gnome
> session started perfectly.  it _has_ to be something with my profile :-/

Yipes! Sounds like you've been having some fun with gnome. When it gets that
interesting for me, I just move everything from home to ~/oldconfig/ except
~/.bashrc, then login and gnome creates everything anew again. I then
proceed to move a few things back at a time starting with things that I
absolutely know wont effect gnome (like .fetchmailrc). But anything gnome or
nautilus related is scrutinized heavily before being readded and nothing
.gconf related ever gets back in. The great thing is that everything is
under your $HOME folder so it's relatively more simple to track down the
problem.

Seth