Hi Wouter, Sean and others, Further to my last posting. I rechecked follows; # cd /home/satimis/.gconf localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf# ls %gconf.xml desktop # cat %gconf.xml (no printout) localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf# cd ./desktop/ localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# ls %gconf.xml gnome localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# cat %gconf.xml (no printout) localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# cd ./gnome/ localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# ls -a %gconf.xml . .. applications localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# cat %gconf.xml (no printout) localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# cd ./applications/ localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# ls -a %gconf.xml . .. window_manager localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# cat %gconf.xml (no printout) localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# cd ./ window_manager/ localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager# ls -a %gconf.xml . .. localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager# cat %gconf.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <gconf> <entry name="default" mtime="1073275499" muser="satimis" type="string"><stringv$ </gconf> The content inside seems broken B.R. Stephen å ææä 05 äæ 2004 23:56ïuws åé: > Pï Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0500, Sean Middleditch skrev: > > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:35, uws wrote: > > > P?? Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:13:01AM +0800, Stephen Liu skrev: > > > > Kindly advise how to check the corrupted settings database. Which > > > > config file/files I have to check? > > > > > > > > > Rename your ~./gnome and your ~/.gnome2 directories and try again. > > > > > > > > locate .gnome > > > > [snip] > > > > Shall I rename all above "/.gnome" and /.gnome2" directories? > > > > > > That's what I'd suggest :-) > > > > > > $ cd > > > $ mv .gnome gnome-backupdir > > > $ mv .gnome2 gnome2-backupdir > > > > Of course, the settings database isn't in either of those directories, > > its in .gconf. > > Aaaargh. I knew that. Well... s/gnome/gconf/s > > > mvrgr, Wouter > > > P.S. Btw, Debian provides a gnome-desktop-environment package. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
