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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:52:35 +1000, Andrew Thomson 
<andrewjt@applecomm.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After my upgrade to 2.6, everything went smoothly except for when I
> startup, I get a little dialogue complaining that the "gnome settings
> daemon" could not be started and thefore I get dodgy icons on the
> desktop.
>
> I have created a new user and tried starting gnome and it all comes up
> perfectly. So I assume I have something funny lying around in one of the
> gnome . directories.
>
> I have tried removing some obvious ones but no luck yet...

Here's more that what I know GNOME will create:

.Trash
> .esd_auth
> .gconf
> .gconfd
> .gnome
> .gnome2
> .gnome2_private
> .metacity
.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> .nautilus
.recently-used
.themes
.thumbnails
.xftcache
.xscreensaver
Desktop
/var/tmp/gconfd-<user>
/var/tmp/mapping-<user>
/var/tmp/orbit-<user>

Cheers,
Mezz

> Any clues on what's causing this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ajt.


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