Re: problems with gnome
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In addition to killing the errant gnome processes, I'd:
$ mv .gnome .gnome.old
$ mv .gnome2 .gnome2.old
$ mv .gnome2_private .gnome2_private.old
And then run startx.
Rodrigo Castro wrote:
> Sorry, I`ve mistaken the e-mails.
>
> Anyway, as I told before I`m having trouble with Gnome, as it doesn`t show
> the panel saying that there`s already a panel running, doesn`t show desktop
> icons or the main menu. As a palliative method to solve this I`ve been
> removing files such as .xsession-errors .gtkrc* and killing processes to
> get
> the panel functioning back.
>
> But I`d like to know how to definitively solve them. Can anyone help me
> out?
>
> On 9/5/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>
> Why do you keep replying to me instead of the list?
>
> Rodrigo Castro wrote:
>> Ok, but that would solve the trouble until it happens again. Isn't
> there
>> any
>> final solution for this?
>
>> On 9/5/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Rodrigo Castro wrote:
>>> These panel problems appears when I log through gdm.
>
>> Disable gdm and use startx from the CLI. This way, *before* you run
>> startx, run "ps aux | grep gnome" to see if there are any errant
>> processes hanging around.
>
>>> On 9/5/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> Rodrigo Castro wrote:
>>>> Gnome's been giving me trouble recently. Sometime it doesn't show the
>>> main
>>>> menu, the archives listed on desktop or doesn't initialize the panel
>>> saying
>>>> that there's already a running panel. I've been deleting some
> archives
>>> like
>>>> .xsession-errors .gtkrc* and so on. But this isn't always successful.
>>>> And to
>>>> solve the panel problem we try to kill some processes, but sometimes
>>> they
>>>> just won't die.
>>>> But these procedures are paliative. I want to know how to stop
> them to
>>>> occur. Can anyone help me? Maybe that isn't even related to Gnome.
>
>>> Do you log in to the console or [gx]dm?
>
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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