Yet another big gnome problem (YABGP)

Nicolai Spohrer nicolai_spohrer at gmx.de
Sat Feb 24 22:49:24 UTC 2007


Ed Smits schrieb:
> 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.
Hm... I just tried to remove the .gnome and .gnome2 folder, but the same
problem appeared... Sad :-/ I do not really want to go that "idiot way",
because mich programs have changed settings and so... There MUST be
another solution, right? :'-(

sad greetings :-[

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