Re: weird yp problem - taskbar and icons do not appear

[Christoph Kukulies <kuku gilberto physik RWTH-Aachen DE>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:51:36PM +0100, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> kuku gilberto physik RWTH-Aachen DE (2000-11-13 at 1209.32 +0100):
> [things about changing UID]
> 
> GNOME does not like UID changes, nor $HOME change either, it is a bit

The $HOME change could be relatively easily be overcome by
changing the Home Directory link in .gnome-desktop. Maybe there
are other hidden dependencies added by other applications, dunno.

In fact, I found out today by more intense searching/studying various
logs, that /tmp/orbit-<username> must be either
deleted or chowned also when changing the user ID.

> nit picky about that things, while the rest of apps can live with
> changes pretty fine. You have to change any reference from old data to
> new data and that includes files left in /tmp by apps like orbit, esd
> or sawfish, as well as config data under ~/.gnome* dirs. I guess your
> problem lies in the /tmp dirs & files.
> 
> I think patches are welcome, but if problems persist in future
> revisions and rewrites, please start a fund to buy some clue sticks
> for the coders. ;]
> 
> GSR

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku gil physik rwth-aachen de