Howto reset a Gnome user profile??

[Senectus .]

On 12/11/05, Seth Hasani <sepheebear at gmail.com> wrote:
> <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.

Well I've even created a new home dir given it the correct permissions
then rm -rf everything in my /tmp dir and it _still_ does the same
thing..

0.o I think I'm looking at a rebuild :-(

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