Out of curiosity, does this affect a new "fresh" test user ? On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 00:35 +1030, Dmitry Mikhin wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > I have a strange problem with my Gnome desktop in FC6. In a nutshell: > gnome treats launchers as plain text files. > > E.g., if I right-click on the desktop, select 'Create Launcher', fill in > all the details (say to run gnome-terminal), the system creates a file > on the desktop called 'Terminal.desktop' (this is how the file name is > shown, including the extension). Then if you click on this file, it is > opened in text editor. If you right-click on the file and select > 'Properties', the file type is 'text/plain', not 'desktop configuration > file', as on other boxes. The file permissions seems to be the same as > on other computers (660, user_u:object_r:user_home_t). The behavior > exists only for one user, others (tested as root) can create proper > launchers. > > Attempts to solve the issue so far: > - reinstalled all gnome rpms with --replacefiles --replacepkgs > - removed and re-created ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome2, and a few other similar > directories > - relabeled everything in SELinux > - changed the desktop theme back and forth > - restored the defaults using 'gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps' > (also /system, /desktop) > > Does not work so far. > > The system is a pretty generic box, 32-bit. Very little customization > done, all updates applied regularly (and the problem was seemingly > triggered by one of the updates, and then went for a few days without > noticing, as everything worked fine when configured first time upon > install). > > Any ideas? > > P.S. I'm not subscribed to this list. Please, cc the replies to me. > > Best regards, > Dmitry > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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