Desktop slow load from GDM

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:33:17 -0500
Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:

> I have already tried renaming the hidden directories gnome, gnome2 and
> gnome2_private...gnome created new ones but that didn't solve anything
> 
> Can anyone explain what are the local files the gnome desktop uses?

Have you tried renaming/moving ~/.gconf ?

I suspect the problem is somewhere in there - if you find that fixes the
slow start, you can gradually put the pieces back until it breaks, to find
where the actual culprit lives ;-)

Peter

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