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Re: Start-up screen for Gnome



On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:50:31PM -0400, Harold Bibik wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:20:09PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote something like this:
> 
> > I'm running Gnome on a Woody i386 computer. When I start the computer and 
> > log in to my user account. Gnome automatically starts several instances of
> > Gnome Terminal, two instances of Gnome Midnight Commander and a single instance
> > of Galeon. I don't like this, particularly Galeon, which starts my PPP.
> > 
> > How can I shut off or control this automatic start? I've tried closing the 
> > unwanted windows and doing a "Save Session". This seems to have no effect.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> In the past when my Gnome desktop has started acting flakey I've
> renamed
> 
> ~/.gnome  to  ~/.gnome.old
> 
> and 
> 
> ~/.gnome-desktop  to  ~/.gnome-desktop.old
> 
> logged out and then logged back in. Gnome will create new
> .gnome and .gnome-desktop files.
> 
> You'll have to redo all your preferences which can be a hassle but
> it has cured the few odd problems I've had with the Gnome desktop,
> YMMV.

Sorry for jumping so late, but if you've still got the problem, edit
~/.gnome/session and remove all the lines with 'galeon', 'gmc' and
'gnome-terminal' (or whatever) from it.  I think it'll work;)

-rob

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