I'm running RedHat 8.0 with gnome2. I managed to damage the gnome pager (desktop switcher) so that gnome-panel crashes when loading, and I'm caught in a gnome-panel crash loop, which makes X useless for root and user accounts.
However a spare test account is unaffected. How can this be? How can the damage affect both root and a user account but not another user account? It was suggested that I uninstall gnome-panel and reinstall it. Unfortunately, things are so interdependent that I'd have to uninstall many applications, with little hope I'd ever be able to undo the damage. Is gnome's desktop switcher/pager an "applet"? Is it even an application? If so, what is its executable's name? Without it I can't locate it or get information on it. What is the name and location of the gnome-panel configuration file? The gnome documentation is no help at all. At least I could attempt some surgery on the configuration to prevent the pager from loading. I have backups, but without any idea the name of the pager or the gnome-panel configuration files, I've no idea what to restore. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
