Yet another big gnome problem (YABGP)

[Ed Smits]

an idiot's way of fixing things when I screw up like that - give the
other account sudo rights, log in under that acc't - use sudo to
change your normal home directory name to something else, log out. Log
back in under your usual user name, it will assume this is your first
session under Gnome and create you a whole new Gnome to mess around
in. Copy your necessary /home files from your old directory back into
your new one - don't forget to copy the hidden ones EXCEPT for any
that look to be related to Gnome - I usually just copy .mozilla and
.vmware, leave the rest behind.

I'm sure there are better ways to do this but this one works for me


Cheers

ED

On 2/24/07, Nicolai Spohrer <nicolai_spohrer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello guys.
> I played with my fonts in kcontrol and so (I use gnome...) and deleted
> the file ~/.fonts-config. Maybe I changed something else, too. I don't
> really know. But now gnome does not want to start anymore for my primary
> user. It works perfectly with my other user-account. And KDE works for
> my primary account at the moment. Problem:
> I enter username/password in GDM (changed my theme), press "Enter" and
> my screen becomes blue - so far, so okay (that's usual). But then I hear
> the usual gnome drums and my desktop freezes. Nothing happens
> anymore.The screen stays absolutely blue. I can use the TTYs and so.
> Reboot does not help. I have some backups but I do not really want to
> use them. And that may not be such a big problem (I hope...).
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> greetings...
>
>
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