[CLUE-Tech] I love GNOME, GNOME hates me

[Match Grun]

I figure that you might have an old version of Gnome installed.
This is how to fix:

1)	Go to your home directory.
2)	Rename the directory .gnome
3)	Start GNOME. This will build a whole bunch of Gnome
	session files in the .gnome directory.

Also, if you rename the .gnome-desktop directory, all desktop
shortcuts will be rebuilt when restarting Gnome.

Note that this directory has configuration files for various
Gnome apps, for example, GnomeCard, glimmer, etc. You might
need either re-configure the apps. Alternatively, you could
copy any config files to the new .gnome directory.

Match

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:58:42 -0600
Matthew Porter <matthew at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> Okay, so maybe GNOME doesn't HATE me, but it's sure making things difficult.
> 
> After using GNOME happily for sever weeks, it is now munged up beyond my 
> immediate ability to figure it out and fix it.  Can anyone help me sort it 
> out, or at least tell me how to completely remove GNOME from my system and 
> START OVER so I get a working GNOME desktop again?
> 
> Here's the chronology of my tale of woe:
> 
> A few months ago I installed Debian on a new hard drive.  (Before that I'd 
> use Red Hat 6-point-something on a partition of another drive.)
> 
> I installed Debian 2.2 from CD.
> 
> Once I got PPP working, I upgraded my packages to the packages in 
> debian.org's stable archive.
> 
> A week or so later, I wanted a package that exists in the testing archive but 
> not the stable archive.  (I think it was the latest RealPlayer installer, but 
> that probably doesn't matter.)  So I added the testing library to my 
> sources.list file, and used apt-get to install the package.  All was well.
> 
> At some point I then upgraded the rest of my packages to the versions in 
> debian.org's testing archive.  (So I guess I'm more or less running Woody 
> now, right?)
> 
> Then, at some point later, I decided I wanted some packages from Ximian.  I 
> downloaded Ximian's version of the panel applets.  I liked it. A few days 
> later I decided to go ahead and install the whole Ximian GNOME desktop.
> 
> (I realize now that that was a Bad Move, since Ximian doesn't work well with 
> Debian's Woody/Testing packages.)
> 
> Ximian Gnome seemed to work OK, except for a few flaky dependency errors whan 
> I tried install new packages.  And in trying to fix those, I seem to have 
> messed things up good.
> 
> I don't recall all of the details of what I've done recently, but here are 
> some of the things I've tried:  I removed Ximian's archive from my 
> sources.list file, and did apt-get update. Then, using dselect, I purged all 
> of the ximian packages from my system, and then replaced them with Debian 
> (testing, I think) packages.
> 
> When that didn't work, I used dselect to purge EVERY GNOME PACKAGE I COULD 
> FIND on my system.  Then I reinatalled task-gnome-desktop and related GNOME 
> packages.
> 
> Still it's broken.
> 
> Here's my current status:
> 
> I can log into a GNOME session.  Windowmaker seems to work OK as a window 
> manager, but I don't want to use Windowmaker.  I have icewm-gnome installed, 
> but the system doesn't recognize it as a GNOME-compliant window manager.  
> Also, I can't configure it and have the configurations saved.
> 
> I have also installed sawmill-gnome.  However, I can't configure it, and the 
> menu button at the top left of window title bars doesn't work at all.
> 
> Can someone help?  I'd like to either fix this, or at least learn how to 
> COMPLETELY REMOVE GNOME FROM MY SYSTEM and then re-install so I have a nicely 
> workin gGNOME desktop when all is done.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  --Matt.
> 
> 
> 
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