On 9/22/07, Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Tim> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 08:52 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >> My GNOME desktop, panels, menus etc. are in a real mess. > >> > >> What I would like to do is get back to a new user's layout. Is > >> there any easy way to do this? If not, what is the difficult > >> way? > > Tim> You probably want to look through your ~/.gconf* and > Tim> ~/.gnome* directories. > > Tim> Log out, and then log in to a text-only console rather than > Tim> graphically. Now you can work on them without fighting > Tim> against Gnome. e.g. rename the parent directories, and then > Tim> log in again, as a brute force method. > > Thanks Tim. > I deleted them all as I don't use Evolution, and wasn't really > concerned about any other settings. > > Now it all seems quite reasonable EXCEPT As well as Icons for > Computer, Wastebasket and colin's Home on the desktop, I have an icon > for every file and directory in my home directory (except for hidden > ones). > > Is this supposed to happen? I want to turn it off if I can. > -- > Colin Adams > Preston Lancashire If Gnome is really buggered-up just delete the entire .gnome directory.
