Re: weird yp problem - taskbar and icons do not appear

[Christoph Kukulies <kuku gilberto physik RWTH-Aachen DE>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:11:34PM +0100, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> kuku gilberto physik RWTH-Aachen DE (2000-11-13 at 1838.16 +0100):
> > > [things about changing UID]
> > > GNOME does not like UID changes, nor $HOME change either, it is a bit
> > The $HOME change could be relatively easily be overcome by
> > changing the Home Directory link in .gnome-desktop. Maybe there
> > are other hidden dependencies added by other applications, dunno.
> 
> I recommend you to do a "grep -r $HOME ~/.gnome/* | wc -l" and then
> rethink your phrase. I got 31, too many hits, cos anything different

Sigh. I knew that someone would come out with worse news :-)
My assumption may have been correct for a virgin set  of
.gnome* dirs.

> to 0 means problems. You will have to change the $HOME reference, by
> hand or by script, to the new dir, instead of the easy and wonderful
> $HOME or ~ that work everywhere (well, ok, the shell at least).
> 
> GSR
>  
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku gil physik rwth-aachen de