GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed.

[Panos Tsapralis]

My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on 
to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they 
refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign above the "OK" button), all 
menus are gone, no panel to the bottom of the screen and I have to press 
"Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace" in order to exit from this mess. What makes me even more 
unhappy is that my beloved Evolution mail client has also been crippled.

I strongly suspect that this happened when I installed the "xfce" window manager 
(it requested that I execute some "xfce_setup" script, which apparently modified 
various GNOME-related configuration files).

Now, the question is: how can I bring my GNOME desktop back to life? Is there 
any initialisation script, that I can execute in order to recreate the GNOME 
configuration files? Should I uninstall & reinstall the RPM packages? If yes, 
which packages are included in the GNOME desktop?

I have a rather recent backup of my home directory, but I do not know which 
directories / files to restore.

Any help will be greatly appreciated...
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Panos Platon Tsapralis,
Software Engineer,
SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer,
Registered Linux User #305894,
Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0),
Athens, GREECE,
cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420,
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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