On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Ted Gould
<ted@gould.cx> wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:21 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Since I can't get gnome to work with my existing user directories,
> what is the best way to remove all of gnome and then reinstall it on
> Debian squeeze?
things outside your home directory, reinstalling should put them back in
exactly the same place that they were before. In general, desktop
packages install very few (if any) configuration files that would change
over time.
The easiest way to test to see if it's your settings or your install
though is to just create a brand new account. If that works then it's
probably not the packages installed. On Ubuntu we created a "Guest
Session" that'll do this (along with a bunch of other things) I'm not
sure if that feature has been imported into Debian or not.
--Ted
,
Ted,
I tried creating a new account, and it works just fine. My old account is messed up somehow. I removed all the .gnome* dirs in my old account and did a reboot, but the account is still messed up. When I log in, all I get is a blank menu bar and the background wallpaper. Three processes take off and I have to reboot or the machine locks up. Please see attached screen shot of top.