On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:42 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > This was a problem I had a while back. I lost the "Preferences" menu > item in my "Applications" menu in Gnome. After much discussion, the > following commands got my "Preferences" menu item back, along with all > the applications inside of it: > > rpm -e redhat-artwork redhat-menus --nodeps --allmatches > yum install redhat-artwork redhat-menus > > But... > > For some reason it isn't working this time. My "Preferences" option in my application menu is gone, and I don't even know why it left. And doing the commands above aren't getting them back. > > Actually, I have some suspicion as to why I've lost my "Preferences" option in my "Applications" menu. Last time this happened, it happened after I installed Amarok and ended up with a bunch of KDE settings I didn't want. > > This time, I installed Quanta, which required some KDE libraries, but it didn't seem to cause as much chaos as last time. > > However, the implications are that for some reason, having any KDE programs seems to affect my Gnome options. > > What's up with that? ---- having KDE programs installed such as Quanta don't bother my system or my Gnome menus and I don't think your cause/effect analysis is accurate. 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. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.