Re: [GNOME-my]Gnome Keyboard Lockup

[Chee Bin HOH <cbhoh ivest48 nat mimos my>]

Obviously, your ${HOME} gnome setting is corrupted, have you did a
backup of them (.gconf, .gnome, etc)? It is the only way to try and
experiment it.

regards,
HOH

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:44, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	Maybe, (& that's a big maybe) someone can shed some light on this.
> 
> yesterday was a _bad_ day for me and my Gnome Experience. I was playing with
> my desktop (Gnome 2.4) and then suddenly the keyboard Hung. Mouse if OK.
> Clicking/moving windows can but keyboard can work if it's life is at stake.
> 
> Reboot..re-login..Same thing.(can't even get to virtual console)
> Everything's fine until I login.
> 
> Login as Root to KDE.. all fine.. Login Root to Gnome.. All fine.. Create
> new user.. loging to Gnome.. All Fine.. Aargh....
> 
> Only when I login as myself does this occur. (Gnome hates me??) So.. what I
> did to solve (actually, didn't solve, re-create). (even renaming .gnome2 /
> .gnome2_private and relogin also no cigar)
> 
> 8am 
> SSh to laptop from desktop.. Kill acme, kill drwright, kill! kill! Kill!! no
> joy.. 
> 
> 8:30am
> create new user(newuser), login, muck about.. copy my(orguser) .gnome2 &
> .gnome2_private over to newuser. some settings are there, panels are gone,
> things are missing stuffs like that. 
> 
> 9:00am
> (spend 30min finding the _desktop_is_home_dir_ is Gconf)
> 
> 9:30am
> Re-setup ____Everything_____. Desktop wallpaper, panels, shortcuts...
> 
> 10:00am
> copy all the .* files.. over.. 
> resetup firebird preferences
> re-setup gkrellm
> resetup.. resetup.. resetup.. and resetup
> 
> 12.00am 
> FINITO
> 
> I'm bored.. I'm frustrated.. I really don't know what happened and I sure as
> &^## do not understand why I still use Gnome.
> 
> ANyone has any comments on why it just happened? And I really mean.. _just_
> I don't believe I did anything prior to that happening at all!!!
> 
> Sigh..
> OW
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,                                                 .^.
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