Well, I don't know what exactly I've done in the past few days, but when I log in to Gnome using a non-root user, there is no text whatsoever on the deskop! Shortcuts, the "Start" menu, the logout screen, tooltips.. everything is just an empty slate! This doesn't happen if I log in to Gnome as root. This happens whether I do "startx" from the attached monitor or use VNC.
Since this doesn't happen when I log in as root, I'm guessing it's a permissions problem somewhere? I've tried deleting almost all of the .g* folders and the Desktop folder in my non-root home directories to no avail. As you can guess, I don't care if I have to completely blow away my desktop configs (I do most work thru the shell using SSH), so what can I do to remedy all this? Force a reinstall of all Gnome rpms?
tia, toby
