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From: "Marco Calistri" <ik5bcu@tin.it>
To: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: switching window managers
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:08:57 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030325220857.15695.qmail@linux.ik5bcu.ampr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303242143.h2OLhMo7020556@hartford-hwp.com>


On 24-Mar-2003 Haines Brown wrote:
> Marco,
> 
> Thanks! You've no idea how I've struggled to get this information.
> 
>> Hello Haines,AFAIK if you remove your ~/.gnome* dirs. then you will be able
>> to
>> restart a fresh gnome desktop...
> 
> I presume that since gnome is set as my desktop manager, these files
> would be regenerated without my having to restart gnome explicitly. 
 
Hello Haines,I suggest you login on init 3 (text) then remove the above
dirs,then you issue startx to re-create the folders.

>> > Do you happen to know the name of the gnome desktop switcher
>> > executable...
>> 
>> switchdesk-gnome-3.9.8-2
> 
> The terminology leaves my head spinning. There's the RedHat desktop
> switcher application, which is what you refer to. But then there's a
> Workplace Switcher, which  is a pager. This is what is broken and what
> I meant. I apologize.

By the way I won't bear you on wrong directions since I'm talking with my
RHL-7.3 experience,not about my RHL-8.0 which I used very seldom.

>> Furthermore an useful hint from an old message:
>> 
>> "Slough, Kelle" <Kelle.Slough@dsionline.com> writes: 
>> > Unfortunately though, I cannot get the panel back.  Does anyone have any
>> > ideas on how I can restore the panel?  As an FYI, I did install the latest
>> > fixes afterwards and that has not corrected the problem.
>> 
>> Just run the panel in a terminal (type "panel") and then type
>> "save-session" after the panel starts.
>> 
>> Havoc
> 
> I assume that "havoc" is the person's name, not what happens if you
> follow the advice ;-).
> 
> Haines

Yes he is Havoc Pennington an "X" desktop developer.

Best Regards

Marco

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-25 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <001001c2ee0a$0fd7cdc0$1803a8c0@ets.enterasys.com>
2003-03-19 15:58 ` switching window managers Haines Brown
2003-03-20  9:04   ` Amin
2003-03-22 22:55   ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-23  4:53     ` Haines Brown
2003-03-23 11:10       ` Amin
2003-03-24 14:26         ` Haines Brown
2003-03-24 19:12       ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-24 21:43         ` Haines Brown
2003-03-24 22:21           ` Haines Brown
2003-03-25 22:08             ` Marco Calistri
2003-03-25 22:08           ` Marco Calistri [this message]
2003-03-21  0:00 Heimo Claasen
2003-03-21  8:14 ` Amin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-18 19:20 Haines Brown

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