On 24-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote: >> > Hello Haines,AFAIK if you remove your ~/.gnome* dirs. then you >> > will be able to restart a fresh gnome desktop... >> >> I presume that since gnome is set as my desktop manager, these files >> would be regenerated without my having to restart gnome explicitly. > > You are right that the ~/.gnome* files are regenerated, but this did > not fix the problem, which evidently lies at a deeper level (even > though not all users are affected). Even after removing the ~/.gnome* > files, when I startx gnome-panel starts to load, but crashes, probably > when it tries to load the window switcher. > > The man gnome-panel says: > >> The Panel was designed to be highly configurable. You can easily >> customize its behavior and appearance and add or remove objects to >> suite your personal needs and preferences. > > But it says nothing more than this. It apparently assumes you will > configure gnome-panel with the mouse rather than edit its files. But > when a problem comes up such as mine, the panel loop means I can't get > a workable desktop, and so I have no mouse to configure panels to > stop (remove from panel) the workplace switcher. Since there's a mouse > option to remove the workplace switcher from the panel, there's got to > be a command to do it, but how is one supposed to find out what it is? > > There must be more information on gnome-panel somewhere that goes > beyond simple panel configuration with the mouse. Until I come across > it, I can't find out whether the workplace switcher is a separate > executable, where it is, or if it has a configuration file. > > Haine
As I told you on my previous email,I'm not so familiar with RHL-8.0,I know they use a different D.M. that is not exactly the same old GNOME as it was on RHL-7.3. I suggest to ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list,but since you reported that spare user is able to use the Desktop,I believe that your is not a serious problem. Good Luck! Marco - 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
