Re: Helix user login

[Sean Murphy <murphy erim-int com>]

Thanks!
I kinda figured you shouldn't have to delete the entire gnome directory, but I
knew it would work.  Like I said, I hadn't done a ton of customization, so I
didn't worry about having to go back and recreate everything.

Daniel Lyddy wrote:

> Sean Murphy wrote:
> >
> > Try deleting your .gnome directories and let Gnome recreate them.
> > You'll lose all the fun little customizations you had, but it'll fix
> > your icons.  I've had to do it on both machines I run.  Luckily, I
> > didn't customize my panel too much at that point, so it didn't take long
> > to put the applets back where I had 'em.
>
> This might be overkill, see if you can't fix everything by simply
> deleting ~/.gmome/metadata.db instead of the entire ~/.gnome directory.
>
> > Fred Schroeder wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,I just installed Helix, and when I login as a user, my icons are
> > > not the normal icons, my trash is a folder, Netscape is a paper with a
> > > flower on it, and I don't have the neat little update pop can.  If I
> > > try to change the icons it will crash the program.  It also will not
> > > let me change the menus.  I can login as root and everything looks
> > > fine.  Any ideas?TIA,Fred
>
> Dan
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