Re: Weird Flashing Behavior

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gaspar, Al <gasparedw@lrn.va.gov>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: Weird Flashing Behavior


>     I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on an Intel box and began using
> Gnome.  It has been running fine for several weeks.  Now, I am getting a
> very odd behavior.
>
>      When I log into gnome, white cutouts of my icons appear where the
> icons would normally be on the left side of my screen and a midnight
> commander window opens up in my home directory,  then they all
> disappear, and then they appear again.  It just keeps cycling like
> that.  The icons never fully appear nor does the midnight commander
> window stay up long enough to be used.  The bottom menu bar appears fine
> (though it indicates the midnight commander window opening and
> closing...).  I can start other things which work, but needless to say,
> it is very aggravating.
>
>      I do not get this behavior if I log in using KDE or if I log in as
> root.  I have tried logging in holding down <CTRL><SHIFT> and resetting
> everything.  It doesn't help.  I'd appreciate any suggestions.

You could try removing your ~/.gnome directory (which would loose all of
your gnome settings). That should give you a default setup that you can work
from. If you want to figure out what's going wrong you might try killing gmc
and seeing if things calm down.

--Ben