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Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:18:00PM CDT |
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> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > Donnie, anyone with some Gnome experience, know how to get out of this one? |
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> It has never happened to me, everything always works great for me. |
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> That's why I am a dev, weird local issues don't happen. =) |
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Well if you bang on this stuff, you learn things. |
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If I rename ~/.gnome2 to .gnome2.old, kill gnome-panel and start a gnome |
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session, I get a gnome session _with_ my old panels in place, but with no icons |
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on them (although gnome still hangs on exit and I have to Ctl-Alt-Backspace to |
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kill it). |
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Also I have another very bare account (user 'test') which is basically virgin. |
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I can log into that with a gnome session and everything, including evolution, |
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seems to work OK. |
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So there are inconsistencies in my current config which are causing problems |
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and I want to be as surgical as possible in removing them, salvaging as much as |
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I can. |
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I don't want to nuke my fmouse account and start completely over so perhaps |
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someone could tell me which files and directories I can rename or move which |
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will cause gnome to re-initialize itself. I seem to remember that there's a |
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particular file somewhere which either the presence or absence of will cause |
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gnome to assume that it's being installed in a fresh account and (re)build all |
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its configuration files from scratch. |
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Same question goes for evolution. Is it possible to move/rename files |
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(~/.evolution, maybe others) so that evolution will think it's running on a new |
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account? Is it possible to import calendar, mail account and contact lists |
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from an old evolution configuration into a new one? |
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It's going to take me a long time to rebuild all this stuff but I don't have |
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any choice. I'm just going to have to do it, but any advice on these config |
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issues will be GREATLY appreciated! |
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