Getting rid of 'balloons'

[Tom H]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/20/2010 12:16 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:04:45 -0600
>>>> Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>    Hi, no /apps/ in 10.04 so what version of Ubuntu are you7 using?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> 9.10, the Karmic Koala, although I don't understand your reference to,
>>>> "no apps in 10.04."  Doesn't an OS need apps (applications, packages)
>>>> in order to /do/ anything?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Perhaps it is your shorthand. Does /apps/ mean Applications?  I
>>> must be pretty dense because I was looking for a directory /apps/.
>>>
>>> My 10.04 has no directory /apps/ that I can find. I even tried
>>> /usr/apps/
>>>
>> This is within gconf!
>>
>>
>         I did this and found zero /apps/:
>
> karl at Lucid:~$ cd gconf
> bash: cd: gconf: No such file or directory
> karl at Lucid:~$ whereis gconf
> gconf: /etc/gconf /usr/share/gconf
> karl at Lucid:~$ cd /etc/gconf
> karl at Lucid:/etc/gconf$ ls
> 2  gconf.xml.defaults  gconf.xml.mandatory  gconf.xml.system
> karl at Lucid:/etc/gconf$ cd
> karl at Lucid:~$ cd /usr/share/gconf
> karl at Lucid:/usr/share/gconf$ ls
> default.path  default.path.md5sum  defaults  mandatory  schemas
> karl at Lucid:/usr/share/gconf$
>
>
>     So where is /apps/?

alt-f2 and gconf-editor
or
cd ~karl/.gconf/