Lost my Desktop preferences !

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> t everytime I restart the machine, my custom settigns are gone again !
> 
> Looks like gnome can't save your settings. Maybe some files in your home
> folder have wrong permissions? Look at your ~/.gnome2 folder ant it's
> permissions. (open a terminal and type: ls -al .gnome2 and post the results)


The results are below (.gnome2 and .gnome), looks like I have lost write
permissions on pretty much each and every file in there ! :-O

Should I just do "sudo chmod +777 -r .gnome2" or something like that ?

Regards,

Vince

vincent at Lotus-Esprit:~ $ ls -al .gnome2
total 180
drwx------   14 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-13 21:57 .
drwxr-xr-x   82 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-14 10:42 ..
drwx------    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-01-26 04:57 accels
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent      4038 2005-02-14 10:15
backgrounds.xml
drwx------    3 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-09 13:08 bug-buddy.d
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent      4655 2004-12-06 21:34
eina-gnome-cover
drwxr-x---    5 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-11 21:54 epiphany
drwx------    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-05 11:29 file-roller
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        39 2005-02-13 17:33 gedit-2
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent     11161 2005-02-13 17:33
gedit-metadata.xml
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        69 2004-12-28 06:06 gnomebaker
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        35 2005-01-19 13:05
gnome-dictionary
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2004-12-04
21:31 .gnome-smproxy-5xYUuL
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2005-02-13
21:57 .gnome-smproxy-FY2NhZ
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2004-12-04
21:06 .gnome-smproxy-ogb6Y3
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2004-12-04
18:48 .gnome-smproxy-QyOSvx
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2004-12-04
11:23 .gnome-smproxy-RONqUT
-rw-------    1 vincent  vincent         2 2004-12-04
13:08 .gnome-smproxy-SaDhW7
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        35 2004-12-26 00:40
gnome-system-log
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        35 2005-02-14 09:33
gnome-volume-control
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        35 2004-12-21 02:21 gnomine
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent       109 2005-02-13 09:22 Gnumeric
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        43 2005-01-29 17:08
hal-device-manager
drwx------    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-04 11:23 keyrings
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        19 2005-02-13 17:28 main
drwxr-xr--    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-15 18:49
nautilus-scripts
drwx------    3 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-04 11:23 panel2.d
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        35 2005-02-13 17:42 procman
drwxr-x---    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-13 21:57 rhythmbox
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent      4208 2005-02-13 21:57 session
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        25 2005-02-05 07:12
session-manual
drwxr-xr-x    4 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-04 11:23 share
drwxr-xr-x    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-18 22:55 totem-addons
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent     10754 2005-02-11 22:27 totem_config
-rw-r-----    1 vincent  vincent       229 2005-02-11 22:27 totem.pls
drwx------    3 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-13 17:40 vfolders
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        53 2005-01-13 07:21 Vim
drwxr-xr-x    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-01-13 13:22 wallpapers
-rw-r--r--    1 vincent  vincent        33 2005-02-13 12:58 yelp
vincent at Lotus-Esprit:~ $ ls -al .gnome
total 20
drwx------    5 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-04 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x   82 vincent  vincent      4096 2005-02-14 10:42 ..
drwx------    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-13 03:05
application-info
drwxr-xr-x    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-04 11:23 gnome-vfs
drwx------    2 vincent  vincent      4096 2004-12-13 03:05 mime-info