Re: gconfd/gnome-panel problem



On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:26 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:59:21AM +0000, Joao Palhoto Matos wrote:
> > [ZIP]
> > >>>~/.gconf, ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 that seemed to be related with
> > >>>gnome-panel.  But even after deleting all these files, I still get my
> > >>>gnome-panel hanging, while all gnome-panel entries
> > >>>(/apps/panel/applets) still appear in gconf-editor. The same happened
> > >>>after removing the ~/.gconfd/saved_state before to launch the X
> > >>>session.
> > >>under .gconf/apps/panel . Delete from console ( and not gnome session )
> > >Yes, I had already deleted it.
> > >
> > >Thank you anyway.
> > 
> > Have you by any chance forgotten ~/.gconfd ?
> > 
> No I didn't.
> 
> At the end I resolved to wipe out ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gconf.
> 
> I followed this procedure:
> mv ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome2-old
> mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf-old
> killall gconfd
> rm ~/.gconfd/saved_state
> gnome-panel &
> 
> Then I managed to copy by hand my configuration from the ~/.gnome2-old
> to the newly created ~/.gnome2 (mainly epiphany and nautilus stuff).
> 
> Now gnome-panel is finally restored to its fresh default state.
> I just wonder where gconfd was picking the gnome-panel
pulled from apps/panel from gconf.


> configuration from. Now all gnome-panel configuration files seems to
> reside in the following dirs:
> ~/.gnome2/panel.d
> ~/.gconf/apps/panel
> 
> It's also not clear to me the difference between ~/.gconf and
> ~/.gnome2, but at least now I have gnome-panel working properly.
.gconf2 is used for storing user configuration data. These are pulled
from /etc/gconf/

.gnome2 for application specific data such as dock data, application
state, etc .

> 
> Cheers
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> Stefano Sabatini
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