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> wrote: >>>>> Somehow I did something that caused my gnome desktop to evaporate. The >>>>> only >>>>> thing that hasn't vanished is the task bar I have set up at the bottom of >>>>> the screen. >>>>> >>>>> Which configuration files/directory may have become corrupt or gone? Any >>>>> help would be appreciated. > <snip> >> If you create a new 'user' and they don't have icons or accounts then >> something is funny in /usr which is causing stuff to not work. If it >> only happens to you then its probably issues with various .files. > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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. ttfn, Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin 1755