Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:39 AM, Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been using mate as my DM on Fedora for years. > For about the same number of I've been unable to > login to a gnome session. I've go no need except > curiosity. But everytime I select gnome (Xorg, > classic, Wayland, ...) the screen blanks and I > get a full screen literally saying "Opps, > something went wrong". > > I can create a new user and login to a gnome > session, so the software is there and functional. > I'm assuming it is something in my configuration > files. But I've been unable to delete the correct > combination of .dirs and files. > > The situation has persisted from about F23 or F24 > through F31. Across 2 new computers where I copied > my home directory to the new systems. > > What must I delete to make my user look like a first > time gnome user? > > Thanks, stay well, > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I would have recommended a $ rm -rf ~/.config But this would not do it. Maybe you can try $ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity .cache .dbus .dmrc .mission-control .thumbnails ~/.config/dconf/user ~.compiz* As I have found it here. https://gist.github.com/mig/5968112 YMMV Best Regards && Hope that it works Antonio _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
