Re: Helix user login

[Daniel Lyddy <daniell cs berkeley edu>]

Sean Murphy wrote:
> 
> Try deleting your .gnome directories and let Gnome recreate them.
> You'll lose all the fun little customizations you had, but it'll fix
> your icons.  I've had to do it on both machines I run.  Luckily, I
> didn't customize my panel too much at that point, so it didn't take long
> to put the applets back where I had 'em.

This might be overkill, see if you can't fix everything by simply
deleting ~/.gmome/metadata.db instead of the entire ~/.gnome directory.
 
> Fred Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > Hi,I just installed Helix, and when I login as a user, my icons are
> > not the normal icons, my trash is a folder, Netscape is a paper with a
> > flower on it, and I don't have the neat little update pop can.  If I
> > try to change the icons it will crash the program.  It also will not
> > let me change the menus.  I can login as root and everything looks
> > fine.  Any ideas?TIA,Fred

Dan
-- 
Daniel Lyddy		daniell@cs.berkeley.edu
California PATH/UC Berkeley Vision Group
Richmond Field Station, Building 452
1357 S. 46th St, Richmond, CA 94804-4698
tel: +1 (510) 231-5659  fax: +1 (510) 231-5600
url: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daniell

It doesn't matter how bad things are.
What matters is whether things will get better.
begin:vcard 
n:Lyddy;Daniel 
tel;fax:(+1) 510-231-5600
tel;work:(+1) 510-231-5659
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daniell
org:UC-Berkeley/California PATH;ViVE Lab/ATMIS Group
version:2.1
email;internet:daniell@cs.berkeley.edu
title:MSEE
adr;quoted-printable:;;Richmond Field Station=0D=0ABuilding 452=0D=0A1357 S. 46th St;Richmond;CA;94804-4698;USA
x-mozilla-cpt:;-8480
fn:Daniel Lyddy
end:vcard