Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:25:43 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Resetting Gnome environment Message-ID: <AANLkTikJmaHB5Lsr1u8tDXNoKzAbPivszh1oWvcqCT2M@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101003142752.BB39E1CC41@ptavv.es.net> References: <4CA61B1A.5090104@freebsd.org> <20101003142752.BB39E1CC41@ptavv.es.net>
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: >> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:32:10 -0400 >> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> >> >> On 10/1/10 1:24 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > I have a 4 year old system that has gone through several releases of >> > Gnome. I suspect I have some bad configuration data from old versions. >> > >> > I have removed .gconfd, .gnome2 and .local, but I still get much of my >> > configuration loaded, including all of my panels and applets and it >> > still knows all of my startup apps. >> > >> > an anyone tell me where this information is stored so that I can flush >> > it and get back to a "default" session? >> >> You forgot ~/.gnome and ~/.gconf. > > Thanks, Joe. That didn't do anything about my startup programs, =A0but it > seems to have cleaned out whatever was causing my problems with things > like applets crashing frequently and the like. > > Any clues as to the location of the startup programs? (Note, this is out > of curiosity. They are not causing any problems for me.) I think it's in the ~/.config/. You might want to check in there before remove that directory. Because GNOME isn't alone that storage in the ~/.config/. Cheers, Mezz > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Phone: +1 510 4= 86-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 =A0EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --=20 mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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