On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:22 -0400, Dwaine Castle wrote: > Experimenting with switchdesk, I changed to the XFce desktop which went > fine. But, I can't go back to Gnome, or to KDE, or to TWM. Switching back > to the "default" desktop didn't work either. Switchdesk suggested deleting > the .Xauthority file which I did but that caused an endless list of error > messages. GNOME now issues messages about not being able to start the > "Settings Daemon", > or the Gnome-clock-applet, > or loading OFIID, > or Bonobo - Warnings, > or the GdkPixbuf assertion 'filename != NULL' failed, > and Warning: destroyed file still being monitored. Try "rm ~/.Xclients" > X windows, for root at least, is now almost useless. I can only open one > terminal window within the GUI. For the record, This is a pure > test/learning machine and no data will be lost. I guess that I can copy the > configuration files from another account or do a reinstall, but I'd like to > know if this is a bug or something I did wrong. Running X as root? Not recommended. Preferred method is "su -" in a terminal window. Phil
