Windowmaker killed GNOME (help!)

[Scott]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:

>On 15/10/05, Scott <angrykeyboarder at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Actually, my dinkin' around in Windowmaker, probably killed GNOME.
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>> 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.
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>> 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...).
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>> Then I tried "start x" which got me nowhere, so I rebooted.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
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>-Eamonn
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I'm afraid that didn't work. :-( I already had it installed.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.