From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JU50l-0002XN-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC158E0438; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lbg2.evolone.org (unknown [198.145.28.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E59FE0438 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbg2.evolone.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4C9B1BFC4; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:58:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:58:27 -0800 From: Michael Higgins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help. Message-ID: <20080226105827.0190155b@lbg2.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080225131522.2c1ef2b3@lbg2.evolone.org> <1203999482.8308.182.camel@orpheus> Organization: Evolone X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e540a79-7044-4664-959d-7343425d8f53 X-Archives-Hash: b1d6fbbb83a6d39a9f64b71f3e8a6a33 On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 +0000 Stroller wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. > >> I have > >> customization that will disappear. Again.) > > > > Make a new user with default .blah files. Does it happen for the > > new user? If so, start singling them out one by one... yes it's > > tedious. > > Can't he just `rename .gnome .gnome.old .gnome*`? > > Stroller. All, thanks for the info. I'll have to learn a bit of strace, I guess. No magic bullet, is what I find. Could this -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list