On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:04:17 -0800 Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I did, but the results were inconclusive. >> >> The results of diff are hard to read and understand. Finally, I just did diff >> --brief and figured I would look at the files in Gedit or something myself >> manually. Even that didn't help. And sometimes diff lied. For example, it >> said two small text files were different, but when I opened them in Gedit and >> compared them line by line they were identical, at least as to content. > >As Tony pointed out diff pays attention to whitespace - in some cases that is >very relevant. > >Consider using context diff, the -c option, to be presented with the most >human readable diff output. Thanks for all the suggestions. I finally nailed it. The ~/.local-original/share/applications folder for the new user had only two files. My ~/local/share/applications folder has many entries. I don't know what they do. Some appear to be part of the Applications menu, but others clearly are not. And I also have launchers in Applications that are not reflected in a file in this folder. However, I was especially interested in a file called metacity.desktop. I noted that the new user's original folder did not contain this file. I tried to rename it, but Nautilus would not let me. I certainly own the file and have rw permissions for it, but Nautilus just wouldn't let me. No matter, as root from the command line I renamed it metacity.desktop.old. Then I rebooted. And after logging in metacity launched as it is supposed to. Everything else seems to be working normally. I have no idea what rogue process created this file. It is a text file that can be opened with Gedit. Looking at the contents I see nothing that says "don't launch metacity for this user." If any of the Gnome users on this list have such a file, it would be interesting to compare notes. I feel an obligation to file a bug report, but I in order to make the bug report useful I need to figure out what is the purpose of the file, what created it, and where it went wrong. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
