dell inspiron 8500 laptop w/ Radeon video card, wide-screen. I'm using Gnome and pretty much default install. After enabling the Desktop Effects (wobbling and 3d desktop) my screen goes into 4:3 aspect ratio mode, there is nothing drawn on the right side, and after logout/login i have no menus whatsoever in the bottom and top bar left. So can't do a thing. Removing all files and directories from this users account and starting up the desktop again clearly didn't help. This is non-intuitive as well, i would have expected whatever that user did, to be limited to $HOME, but that clearly doesn't seem to be the case? Doing it the "official root way" (removing that user, re-enabling it) did get the desktop back, so at least some logic here. - peter