On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:14, Panos Tsapralis wrote: > My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on > to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they > refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign above the "OK" button), all > menus are gone, no panel to the bottom of the screen and I have to press > "Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace" in order to exit from this mess. What makes me even more > unhappy is that my beloved Evolution mail client has also been crippled. > > I strongly suspect that this happened when I installed the "xfce" window manager > (it requested that I execute some "xfce_setup" script, which apparently modified > various GNOME-related configuration files).
Have you tried the xfce_remove script? That removes any references to XFCE or any special scripts generated for XFCE (like the .xinitrc and .xsession) - once that's done, you should try typing: switchdesk gnome just to be sure everything's hunkydory. -- Sat Jun 28 09:10:00 EST 2003 09:10:00 up 3 days, 8:56, 4 users, load average: 1.18, 1.12, 1.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * "The voters have spoken, the bastards..." -- unknown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
