Resetting Gnome environment

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> 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.)

I think it's in the ~/.config/. You might want to check in there
before remove that directory. Because GNOME isn't alone that storage
in the ~/.config/.

Cheers,
Mezz


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