[CentOS] Lost icons and background on 5.2 desktop

[Lanny Marcus]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net>
<snip>
>>  It was working and then he did something and it stopped working. I
>> looked again, in the 3 .gnome folders and I don't see anything that
>> rings a bell. There is some file that he needs to delete, log out and
>> then log in again and it will create a new enviornment for him. The
>> mystery is, which file and where is it.

> Got it!!  Apparently I hadn't replaced all the hidden directories in ~.  I
> tried once more and voila!
>
> Thank you for your help.  I'm back in business.

Cool! That's great! Once you know the solution, it's easy, but there
are many mysteries.