Re: gconfd/gnome-panel problem

[Stefano Sabatini <stefano sabatini-lala poste it>]

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
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.

Cheers
--
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://li.count.org)