Yet another big gnome problem (YABGP)

[Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:49 +0100, Nicolai Spohrer wrote:
> 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? :'-(

Can you attach the .xsession-errors file after attempting to log into
GNOME? (log in with the broken account, then log in with the working
account and attach /home/<broken username>/.xsession-errors

mike

> sad greetings :-[
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
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