Marcus Harnisch writes: > I start X and exec gnome-session from .xinitrc. First thing I noticed > is there's no splash-screen. Desktop background is black, and all > Nautilus icons are kind of generic 'dog-eared sheets of paper' (I > assume from stock-icons). The panel geometry is roughly 200x12. The > fontsize of the icon titles is about 1 (one) pixel -- antialiased, > though ;-) > > pop-up windows have a completely screwed up geometry (widths are > sometimes in the range of 32000, as Xfree tells me in its error log). All right. It turned out that my /etc/gconf database was completely corrupt. I reinstalled the schemas and my problems went away. Dunno why things worked as root, though. Does GConf ignore the system database when running as root? Best regards, Marcus _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list