i did somthing dumb to gnome

[gwartheg]

Hi,

I was messing around with Gnome's window manager capplet, and when I switched back to Sawfish from Enlightenment, I noticed that my Gnome desktop is now comprised of two identical layers. It's like there's a gap at the top where Enlightenment's info bar was, but it has the same wall paper as my desktop. Nothing happens when I right-click on this little gap, and I can't drag a rubber band up into it. It's so annoying! Did I mess something up when I was clicking around in Enlightenment? How do I get Gnome back to where it was before I tried different window managers? Thanks!

[Okie]

there have been times in the past when i totally trashed a user account (my user account) and instead of hunting allover in my home directory for a hard to find config file i would just delete the .kde or .gnome and .gtk directory and log off and back on, this will correct the problem, one thing is that when you log bacl on everything will be set back to the default setting like the the time when you logged on for the first time, this is save as it does not change anything system wide, and any custom desktop tweaks will have to be redone as it will be set back to defaults...

[Okie]

P.S. don't feel bad, the best thing about making mistakes in Linux is that you just learned how NOT to do something...

[Dun'kalis]

UNIX, and, by extension, GNU/Linux, are very intolerant of screwups, since you are expected to know what to do. You learn. Its a process. Live it. Learn it. Know it.

I remember installing Gentoo, and it kept telling me to fsck my drives, even after I did. I never figured it out, now use SuSE...Its fun to learn this stuff!

EDIT: Sounded harsh. Edited it a bit.

[gwartheg]

Thank you! I deleted the .gnome directory and logged out and back in. Guess that'll learn me.