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Re: Lost window manager and gnome-panel



On 09-11-23 15:50:52, John Jason Jordan wrote:
 ...
> The only thing I can think of is that Nautilus has a bug where
> clicking on Preferences crashes it, so I used gconf-editor to change 
> the way Nautilus works. I could go back and set Nautilus to defaults 
> (I think there is an option somewhere for that), but I Gnome is not 
> usable at the moment unless I log in as my new user. 
 ...

You might first try polluting the new user with your broken user's 
config files from ~/.gnome*/ and ~/.gconf*/, to see what breaks it.  
(Do it one directory at a time.)

The Gconf files are all XML, so diff'ing them is possible but tedious.

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