Resetting Gnome environment

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 10/3/10 10:27 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:32:10 -0400
>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
>>
>> On 10/1/10 1:24 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> I have a 4 year old system that has gone through several releases of
>>> Gnome. I suspect I have some bad configuration data from old versions.
>>>
>>> I have removed .gconfd, .gnome2 and .local, but I still get much of my
>>> configuration loaded, including all of my panels and applets and it
>>> still knows all of my startup apps. 
>>>
>>> an anyone tell me where this information is stored so that I can flush
>>> it and get back to a "default" session?
>>
>> You forgot ~/.gnome and ~/.gconf.
> 
> Thanks, Joe. That didn't do anything about my startup programs,  but it
> seems to have cleaned out whatever was causing my problems with things
> like applets crashing frequently and the like.
> 
> Any clues as to the location of the startup programs? (Note, this is out
> of curiosity. They are not causing any problems for me.)

What startup programs?  There's also ~/.dmrc, ~/.config, and ~/.cache in
addition to a slew of other per-application paths that you would need to
get rid of to truly start from scratch.

Joe

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