hi friends, I used gconftool-2 to first shutdown the gconfd and then made changed to the applet id list to add an applet to the panel on startup........ however when i do this form the root and rebbot thje machine again.........the desktop goes haywire .Its completely destroyed.cant see anything but some gray and black and red patches (which look like a part of some error messages also!!) as if its hanged. could some1 shed some light on why its happening! i'm using redhat. thanx, Richa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list