Broken Gnome, Help needed

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 01:04 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 21:35, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > Oops and don't do this:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 20:50 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > rm -rf ~/.gnome
> > 
> > instead of   rm -rf [...]   use   mv -i [...].
> 
> Fair.
> 
> But AFAIK if they are missing, GNOME just resets to defaults.

Most likely this is what happens, but maybe the OP wants to get back
something and a diff ~/.gnome ~/.gnome.backup helps to find it.

Adding a new user first and starting a session by this new user helps to
find out, if a binary is broken or a global setting is messed up. If a
new user doesn't suffer from the same symptoms, then the old user's
settings are the culprit.

I suspect it's a user setting, too, but you never know.