Windowmaker killed GNOME (help!)

Scott angrykeyboarder at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 07:45:42 UTC 2005


Eamonn Sullivan wrote:

>On 16/10/05, Scott <angrykeyboarder at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>>>
>>>-Eamonn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>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.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I thought maybe that might redo the basic settings. How about moving
>your Gnome sessions and forcing them to be recreated. Like this:
>
>~ $ mv .gnome .oldgnome
>
>And then restarting?
>
>-Eamonn
>
>  
>
I'd thought about that. I was afraid I might make things worse, but I've 
since tried it anyway and it worked, till I tried changing the default 
ugly um...er "lovely" brown theme.  Then the clock applet crashed 
followed by GNOME panel and the problem was back.

Thanks anyway.

Scott




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