Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> After upgraded directly from RH9 to FC3 the Gnome desktop is very
> spartan and not displaying the Bluecurve theme. Instead a default
> desktop is displayed with virtually empty panels. After adding the
> Main Menu it only contains names and no icons. Lost more ugly
> default theme everywhere, no key binding including Alt-TAB, etc ...
>
> Also running gnome-theme-manager (Main Menu / Preferences / Theme)
> produces an error dialog box containing:
> The default there schemas could not be found on your system. This
> means that you probably don't have meatcity installed, or that your
> gconf is configured incorrectly.
>
> metacity-theme-viewer reports loading "Atlanta" theme.
>
> Is there someway to get Bluecurve theme and associated settings back?
I asked:
> Does adding a new test user get what you want? If so, you may want to
> copy the ~/.gnome* and ~/.gconf* directories somewhere else and re-start
> X.
Mike replied:
> Unfortunately this made no difference.
>
> A brand new test user still had the same problem. Even took the machine
> to run level 1 and killed gconfd and a few other processes before
> returning to run level 5 and testing the user for the first time.
Hmm. Since it's an upgrade, I assume that you're still on x86, not
x86-64 (which might involve multi-arch issues).
What does
rpm -V redhat-artwork
and possibly
rpm -V gnome-utils metacity
show?
James.
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