broken GNOME requires openbox

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thufir

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Mar 21, 2012, 1:48:30 AM3/21/12
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For some reason GNOME, GNOME classic and GNOME classic (no effects) is
broken for one particular user. The panels don't load correctly, so
there's no way to logout. (At first I used REISUB, but then thankfully
found that you can enable ctrl-alt-backspace to kill xwindows:
http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/gnome_x_server.png, glad
to see that back.)

I've tried to get used to GNOME/openbox, but this (older) system gets
just a little bogged down by the odd panel. So, while I have LXDE and
XFCE, I'd like to go back to GNOME classic (no effects).

'Creating a panel in an empty desktop

Right click in the desktop and create a launcher to execute "gnome-
panel". '

http://live.gnome.org/GnomePanel says:


However, I was looking for something like "panel1.txt" or something along
those lines, but nothing in:

thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll .g
.gconf/ .gnome2/ .gstreamer-0.10/ .gtkrc-2.0
.gem/ .gnome2_private/ .gtk-bookmarks .gvfs/
thufir@dur:~$


Also, I suppose this might happen again. Why would a panel sort of get
caught in a loop and not load, but nothing else would work either?
However, the account works fine with GNOME/openbox.

-Thufir


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