On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:43, Jim Cornette wrote: > > > try renaming .gnome .gnome2 .gnome_private .gnome2_private to *.old and > then trying to startx again. All your ICON's and things should be like > as a first time user. If you can login successfully now, you can copy > needed stuff from the old files into the newly created ones. I usually > delete the damaged directories and start clean. > After renaming to *old, my desktop came up blank (even worse).. but deleting the newly created ones and renaming back brought my desktop back, so in a roundabout way it worked out :) Thanks. Ben
