On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:34 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > On date Friday 2007-11-09 08:51:22 -0500, Lowell Thomas gnomed: > > Hi, > > > > I'm an experienced C/C++ developer with a little UNIX experience years ago, > > but a complete newbie to Linux and GNOME. I just installed Debian 4.0r1 with > > gnome 2.14.3 and I'm having trouble with the terminal. Problem one, is that > > it does not seem to run the .bash_profile script at start up. Problem two, > > is that I shot myself in the foot experimenting with fixing it. I modified > > some parameters in the terminal profile (I don't remember which, but I > > modified some check boxes) and now it just flashes on and immediately exits > > before I can undo my changes. I can get a root terminal, but not my user > > terminal. Any help would be appreciated. > > Hi, > > I think you messed up with the configuration of the terminal, since > it's wrong it nicely crash without to say nothing (one of the nicest > things of the GUI), since the user is supposed to know nothing. > > You coud try to individuate the exact conf files for the terminal > you're using (gnome-terminal I suppose), check in some directory like > ~/.gnome or ~/.gnome2 or maybe ~/.config, maybe someone in this list > can help, then delete them and the application should restore its > default setting on the next start. All of gnome-terminal's settings should be stored in GConf. You can quickly wipe your terminal settings by running the following in an xterm or the console: gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-terminal -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
