Re: Is there a safe or easy downgrade FC5 > FC4??

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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:05:09 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:

> I Beartooth wrote:

>> Alas! even with the groupinstall done, my new user gets a fine gnome
>> desktop --but I as btth do not.
> 
> Some bit of saved state is preventing Gnome from starting.  Log in
> on a VT and move the .gconf* .gnome* and .metacity directories
> from ~/btth to some out of the way place and then see if Gnome
> will start for you.

Bless you! And bless you some more! As Robert Ragusa and others had
suggested, that was the big one. I'm doing this as btth, on a gnome
desktop, on what has just become my main machine once again. No last
desparate jackhammered downgrade need apply -- what a relief!

As btth on the halfbreed desktop, I did mkdir GnomeTemp, followed by mv
.gnome* GnomeTemp, mv .gconf* GnomeTemp, and mv .metacity GnomeTemp -- and
then logged out and back in.

It gave me gnome, and let me reconstruct my panels in detail. (I couldn't
wait to try to find them again.)

So I have all that stuff in /home/btth/GnomeTemp -- what do I do next?
Delete it all? Sift through it somehow? Some other form of clean-up??

Surely at least make gnome the default login again?

Many, many thanks to all!

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Wordcrafty Squirreler, Neo-
Redneck Retiree,  Not Quite Clueless FC Power User



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