Ok i have been running Redhat for a while and decided i wanted to run SuSE so i installed it with GNOME and when i got to the desktop there were no icons and i couldn't click on the desktop.. This is very bad,,,
So i then decided to put redhta back on and i had the same problem..
I have looked around for a fix but no luck... Could you please help?
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mattmorrow
01-14-2001, 02:52 PM
Don't have a definitive answer...
At this point, you might just install "*gnome*" and see if that works! Sounds like it couldn't hurt....
posterboy
01-15-2001, 07:42 AM
Also, it's possible, sometimes, to recover a gone south installation by simply re-naming the dot files, the .gnome stuff in the home dir. Mv them to .gnome-x or something, and the thing will build new ones, with factory defaults for everything. After that, I have had some success with pulling my setups from the renamed folders back into the newly created ones. This is not going to help if the actual binaries are messed up, of course. And, another idea, is to create a whole new user on the box, set him up with gnome stuff, copy his .gnome files back where you want them. Then remove him as a user. Don't forget to chown things, if you use this method. I've screwed this box up so many times, I got a bunch a ways to recover. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif Ray
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