I finally was not able to resolve the difficulties, that I encountered while trying to restore my data files, so I opted for another workaround:
I moved all related directories (Named ".gnome*/" AND "*.gconf*") into some other area and, then, restarted Gnome. All relevant configuration files were regenerated, using default values (just like when one first installs the Operating System). Right after that, I started Evolution and it worked fine.
I would like to thank everybody very much for willing to help me out of this.
Regards,
Darνo Mariani wrote:
Search for .gnome* file and directories in your home dir.
Panos Tsapralis wrote:
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...
-- 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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