On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:52 -0800 John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> dijo:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:56 -0500 > Tony Nelson <tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> dijo: > > > On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > ... > > > 1) How can I fix Gnome? What part of the configuration starts > > > metacity and gnome-panel when the user logs in? Note that I'll have > > > to do this manually from XFCE, because I can't even get a terminal > > > running in Gnome. > > > > Try creating a new user. If that user works properly in Gnome, it's > > probably a user-specific config file, usually in a .gnome*/ directory, > > and diff'ing the files may help (I suggest meld, but I use vimdiff > > nowadays). > > Now, why didn't I think of that! > > Turns out that this was an excellent suggestion. I created a new user > (using XFCE4), then logged out and back in as the new user. When my new > user logged in I deliberately selected Gnome. And my new user got a > default Gnome desktop, complete with window manager and gnome-panel. > > So now we know that the problem is something in my configuration. > > The only thing I can think of is that Nautilus has a bug where clicking > on Preferences crashes it, so I used gconf-editor to change the way > Nautilus works. I could go back and set Nautilus to defaults (I think > there is an option somewhere for that), but I Gnome is not usable at > the moment unless I log in as my new user. Turns out that I can edit my configurations from an XFCE4 session as long as I log in as myself. I changed only one thing - so Nautilus would display the desktop. Then I logged out and back in again to Gnome as myself. Still no metacity or gnome-panel, but at least now I could create a launcher to start a terminal. I opened a terminal and started metacity and gnome-panel, and now things look as they did before. The problem is that if I log out and back in to Gnome again (or reboot and log in to Gnome again) I will have to use the launcher to open a terminal and start metacity and gnome-panel manually. So now I am back to the original issue: What starts metacity and gnome-panel during the session startup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
