Resetting Gnome Desktop
Matt Florido
matt at floridonet.com
Mon Feb 7 03:38:37 UTC 2005
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>
> The "chainsaw" method is to boot the machine to runlevel 3 (i.e. np
> GNOME stuff running), and in your home directory run the commands:
>
> mkdir backup
> mv .g* backup
>
> This will move all your GNOME settings (essentially deleting them) and
> they will be reset to defaults next time you start X.
>
> Thomas
Thanks Thomas. That did the trick. Now I'm attempting to determine why
VNC caused the changes. I think it's because I had settings to be saved
automatically.
I also need to find out if there is a graceful way of exiting VNC Viewer
instead of simply closing the application.
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Regards,
Matt Florido
(Newly acquainted to FC3)
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