Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:06:57 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: >> Then my vote goes to "sit and wait" :-) > > I sat and waited and nothing happened. > > Today, I did more Googleing and found a sledgehammer solution. > > Go to runlevel 3 and login. > Then issue the command > > $ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: > On Wed,26.May.10, 10:59:30, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> What's the point in rebooting? Just log out, log in on a VT, delete the >> directories and log in again. Gnome doesn't keep any daemons running >> after the user logs out, or does it? > > I certainly hope it doesn't :) I am

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.May.10, 10:59:30, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Andrei Popescu: > > > > - boot in "recovery mode" > > # rm -rf ~username/.gnome > > ... > > # reboot > > What's the point in rebooting? Just log out, log in on a VT, delete the > directories and log in again. Gnome doesn't keep any daemons running

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: > > - boot in "recovery mode" > # rm -rf ~username/.gnome > ... > # reboot What's the point in rebooting? Just log out, log in on a VT, delete the directories and log in again. Gnome doesn't keep any daemons running after the user logs out, or does it? J. -- I have been manipulat

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.May.10, 09:06:57, John O Laoi wrote: > > Then my vote goes to "sit and wait" :-) > > I sat and waited and nothing happened. > > Today, I did more Googleing and found a sledgehammer solution. > > Go to runlevel 3 and login. This will probably not have the expected result on a default D

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 May 2010 13:15:50 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:36:34 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: >> >>> What would ye think of doing >>> >>> aptitude purge gnome >>> followed by >>> aptitude install gnome >>> >>> Is that likely to break lots of other things? > > U

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Camaleón: > On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:36:34 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > >> What would ye think of doing >> >> aptitude purge gnome >> followed by >> aptitude install gnome >> >> Is that likely to break lots of other things? Usually not, but I don't see the point in doing that. It appears you would

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:36:34 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > What would ye think of doing > > aptitude purge gnome > followed by > aptitude install gnome > > Is that likely to break lots of other things? Dunno, I'm a "stable" user and do not like such abrupt things. How do you (you = people using

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 May 2010 09:55:00 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Thanks Camaleón, > >> - First try: run "killall gnome-panel". >> >> - Second thing to check: create a new panel and see if behaves >> correctly when you minimize the applications. >> >> - Thrird try: create a new user and login with it. >>

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread John O Laoi
Thanks Camaleón, > - First try: run "killall gnome-panel". > > - Second thing to check: create a new panel and see if behaves correctly > when you minimize the applications. > > - Thrird try: create a new user and login with it. > I did all of this. Same behaviour, even with the new user. John

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

2010-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 May 2010 09:00:17 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: (...) > When I open a console on the GUI and minimize it, it appears to go to > the bottom right corner, and then disappears completely. Then the Panel > on the top panel no longer functions. Icons on the desktop continue to > function. > >