On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:45:24 -0800 John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: >Thanks for all the suggestions. I finally nailed it. > >After creating a new user and logging in the new user had metacity. I >had renamed the new users .local folder to .local-original, then >copied my .local folder to the new user. After logging out and back in >again as the new user metacity failed to load. Therefore, I knew the >problem was in my .local folder. > >After much use of diff and trying things I focused >on .local/share/applications/metacity.desktop. This file did not exist >in the new user's original .local folder. > >I have no idea what rogue process created this file. It just happened again, except that this time it was the gnome-panel that failed to load on logging in instead of metacity. Looking at the .local/share/applications folder, sure enough, there is now a file gnome-panel.desktop. And the date stamp on it is January 14. Thinking back, that was approximately the time I made a change to the Applications menu. Specifically, I did not want K3b in Applications > Sound and Video but, rather, in Applications > Accessories. So I right-clicked on Applications and then on Edit Menus. In the Main Menu window I dragged K3b from Sound and Video to Accessories, then deleted it from Sound and Video. Apparently this caused the gnome-panel.desktop file to be created, and something in it was keeping gnome-panel from loading. As before with the metacity.desktop file, renaming gnome-panel.desktop solved the problem. There is another thread here recently initiated by David Harel "Windows Decorations Lost ..." He reports a similar experience. Clearly we have a bug in the menu editor. I think it's time for me to file bug report. However, I have some problems. First, the Gnome bug tracker site is hopeless. I find it impossible to navigate and find anything. More important, I cannot figure out the name of the menu editor module. There is a Help button on the window, but it has no About window to tell me what the name of the package is. I need to know what it is called before I try to file a bug report. Can someone point me in the right direction here? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
