Re: How can I remove everything gnome/gtk and start afresh?
Robert Hilbrich wrote:
And since I don't have the CD's handy and I am doing this over a
dialup connection.. I'd rather try something a little less drastic
first.
I think, if you made some changes to the global configuration files, a
purge and a reinstall should be fine.
Well.. I've already done this a couple of times - once w/
$ apt-get remove --purge gnome
or something similar..
and another with the synaptic gui - there was an option where you could
specify that you wanted everything removd - IIRC.
.. and both failed insofar as the subsequent installs were still broken:
gnome keyboard shortcuts are not working and you can't add new ones..
can't change the background - it's black.. can't switch themes.. can't
access the mouse configuration GUI.. etc..
If you added something to the user
specific configuration files, a remove of all ~/.gnome-like directories
should give you a clean start. I hope, it helped a bit.
I think that's the way I broke gnome/gtk initially.
I moved a bunch of gnome/gtk+ to a ~/tmp directory that I had created
for that purpose. Unfortunately one "gconf" directory was moved to /tmp
instead of ~/tmp - (found that after the fact from my bash history file)
and Debian has some default procedure that appears to delete evrything
from /tmp each time you reboot. So I lost whatever lived in that
directory and that's when things started acting funny..
And no de/re-installing seems to be capable of fixing this mess.
Robert
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