On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 20:53 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
Suggest that you logout, grab a root shell, move your ~/.gnome2 to ~/.gnome2-bak and log back in. This should reset the gnome settings back to defaults but I am not knowledgeable about how/where things gnome are stored. You might want to move specific program settings back from the backup folder you created.
Unfortunately, that yielded no results.
I noticed when I logged into the root account, also in Gnome, and which should already be in default mode as I've never made any adjustments to it, is also missing the "Preferences" menu item in the Applications bar.
So it would seem it's not a matter of individual user settings, but something more general.
--- indeed - it would seem that way.
You should never login to GUI as root. Never as in not ever.
If you want to test your theory as more general, create a new user and log in as that user (you can delete the user and his files/home directory easily, later).
If that new user doesn't have a Preferences Menu, then yes, I would agree that it is something more general that has impacted the menu structure.
Craig