Re: Gnome weirdness

[Eric Garff <egarff aros net>]

I would suggest deleting your ~/.gnome directory and trying over, I had
the same issue of the blue background, but it works now that I have done
that. 

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> 3 days ago I installed Gnome 1.0
> I learned about fixing the /etc/hosts local loopback line
> I learned about forcing the RPS to install, as they don't "magicallly" cure
> their dependencies issues by themselves. in --force I trust.
> I learned about installing the devel libraries and rpm packages, even
> though I have NO plans to be a Gnome developer. It appears several key
> lobraries and components are installed only from the devel rpms.
> I chose a background, am still looking to cure the "mirror pool" effect.
> 
> Today I started my machine, did s startx, and this time Gnome brought up a
> plain blue background, no picture, and the mouse acts strangely.
> Before, I could middle click the background for a menu, now this doesn't work.
> Oh, it gets worse, there  now seems to be no way to grab and move a window!
> About the only thing functionuing is the menu button.
> I can run the Gnome control panel fro it, and it works ( sort of, pops up
> windows in many strange and overlapping ways, see bitch about no moving
> windows for joyof this problem!).
> 
> What on earth could have happened to my little gnome?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
> $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
> lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
> 
> 
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