reinstall gnome without messing up other thing?

[Alex Mandel]

Beinan Li wrote:
> My OS: Dapper x86 on AMD64 (with both gnome and kde installed)
> 
> Problem:
> gnome was broken for unknown reason, saw flickering
> panel after seeing start-up splash and hearing loggin music.
> 
> I turned off all startup program by editing ~/.config/Autostart/
> and the problem is still there.
> 
> Looks like the easiest way is to reinstall all GTK stuff.
> Any idea on how I do to have gnome back without messing up
> other things such as kde?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Beinan
> 
> 
Try to reinstall Ubuntu-Desktop package, I think its a metapackage for
the gnome based install.

Alex