Broken Gnome, Help needed

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, dem 11.09.2022 um 02:31 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-
users:
> 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.

As I wrote, I don't have ~/.gnome. Not even in my backups.

> 
> 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 want to try it without logging out first. Who knows if I could get back
in, when I logout and try to log in as the new user...

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

Regards,
Volker