Dead gnome panel

[Dieter Schicker]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:57 +0200, albi wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:54:47 +0200
> Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
> 
> > today after gdm login I was presented with two empty gnome panels at
> > the top and at the bottom, only the workspace switcher and the waste
> > basket showed up, the former didn't work the later did. There was
> > also no right mouse button functionality on the panels so I could not
> > reinstall the menu and the other icons. The icons on the desktop
> > worked as expected. My home directory is nfs mounted but nfs works
> > just fine.
> > 
> > I know that one "solution" is to remove all the .gconf* and .gnome*
> > directories but - as you can imagine - I don't like that solution very
> > much because you lose all your nifty tweakings and settings! ;-)
> 
> what about :
> - backup your .gconf* and .gnome*
> - log out
> - rm -rf .gconf* and .gnome* (in e.g. icewm or KDE or console)
> - log in again (Gnome)
> - log out again
> - write your favorite settings back (in e.g. icewm or KDE or console)
> - log in again (Gnome)

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Although I ask myself why this should work
when I copy the obviously corrupt data back ...

Dieter