tyme Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Last night I was messing with themes and managed to make GNOME bite the big one...panels disamappeared, and I couldn't start any applications (even from a terminal I had open). It happened when I was changing icon themes. While I know a good ol' rm -rf ~/.gconf would rectify this I'd rather see if anyone knows where this information is held (no, I don't have a ~/.gtkrc) so that I can change it there and not blow anything away. It should be in one of the XML files in .gconf but I figure if someone knows off-hand it'll save me the digging... (you know, I'm not sure when the last time I posted an actual question was....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 18, 2006 Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 Fellow Archer here, but I do not use Gnome... just KDE and IceWM (although it's installed). I'm afraid I cannot help, as I'm not familiar with Gnome configuration files- any chance you can post the same issue at the Arch forum? (or wait Phunni, or any other Arch user here to respond). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2006 i'm not very active on the arch forums, being an admin here and all. really, it doesn't matter where i post it because technically it's a gnome question ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 19, 2006 Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 From my limited experience in Gnome, I have a funny feeling it might be that nautilus was turned off for the desktop stuff perhaps? I dunno. Just a suggestion. And I'm probably wrong :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2006 From my limited experience in Gnome, I have a funny feeling it might be that nautilus was turned off for the desktop stuff perhaps? I dunno. Just a suggestion. And I'm probably wrong :PNo, I always have nautilus turned off for drawing the desktop. But nautilus does not draw the panels or the program windows, that's a GNOME thing. Either way, I just did an rm -rf .gconf, .gnome and .gnome2 - apparently the setting was in one of the last two directories and deleting only .gconf didn't resolve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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