Re: Gnome-shell weather extension hung

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On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 00:45 +0930, Tim wrote: 
> Allegedly, on or about 07 April 2014, Matthew Saltzman sent:
> > I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and I've tried
> > to locate files or settings that should be cleared or reset 
> 
> General advice:  Un-installing and reinstalling rarely helps, this isn't
> Windows.  You would have had to have a screw up during install, or some
> random error, for installed files to go amiss.  Something I've never
> seen, in umpteen years of using Linux.  Not that it's impossible, but
> quite unlikely.  And un-installing does not remove configuration files
> that you've created.  So, a re-install will get the same configuration.

I know all that, but ran out of ideas after killing anything that looked
to me like a configuration file or cache file in my home directory
didn't help.

> 
> If you can't find the configuration files, you can try creating a new
> user (a new user has less files for you to look for).  Wait a moment or
> two, configure what you want to investigate, then look for configuration
> files with that timestamp on them.

Was getting close to that, but hoped somebody would have a simpler
solution.

Thanks for the suggestions.

> 

-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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