sessions, panels, menus.. oh my!

["F. Heitkamp" <heitkamp ameritech net>]

Somehow I've managed to screw up the menus and panels on my Gnome setup.

I compiled the entire Gnome 2.8 from sources and once had it working 
properly. Since then, in the process of screwing around, I managed to 
completely hose up the configuration.  I've been trying to get the default 
setup back.
When I run Gnome as root I can get the default behavior, by jumping 
through a few hoops. One strange thing is Gnome wants to use icewm as the 
default window manager.  I cannot seem to find where Gnome is finding this 
setting.
When I run Gnome as myself, I get some of the icons but both the upper and 
lower panels, toolbars, and menus are either missing, missing icons or 
have some other problem.
I even tried running scrollkeeper-rebuilddb.

I wrote a little shell script to remove the Gnome config directories:
---- cut here ----
#!/bin/sh
GNOMEDIRS=" .gnome .gnome2 .gnome2_private .gconf \
.gconfd  .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .nautilus .metacity .gstreamer-0.8 \
.icons .themes"

for gdir in $GNOMEDIRS 
do
	if [ -d $gdir ]
	then
		echo "removing directory: $gdir"
		rm -rf $gdir
	else
		echo "directory $gdir does not exist"
	fi
done
---- cut here ----

There is obviously some configuration files hidden somewhere that I have 
been unable to find.  I think the /etc/gconf directory is OK because the 
panels and menus are default when I run as root.
Any hints or things to try would be most helpful. I would especially like 
to find configuration files I've missed.
I am a little disappointed that I am having so much trouble with this. 
This is worse the M$ Windows behavior AFAICT.  There should be a button 
that restores all defaults or a least shows where they are located. I've 
also checked some of the online Gnome docs and have not found the settings 
and configuration structure explained in detail.  If I've missed a doc, 
please let me know.

Fred

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