Revive corrupt user

[Alan Cox]

> latest Fedora updates, I could no longer get to the desktop of my 
> personal user so in the end I had to go through the same process of 
> creating a new user before I could login. But I again had to go through 
> the tedious task of copying my personal files and personalising the 
> settings of the new user.

You shouldn't be able to break the desktop that comprehensively even by
doing silly things (well beyond using gconf-editor which is asking for
trouble ;)). How did you manage to break it ?


> Here is the question: Is there any way to backup my existing user info 
> so that I can just restore the backup when I need to and have all of my 
> user preferences set the way I left them? I have tried backing up the 
> "Home" folder but after restoring it, I still had the same problem.

Generally for GNOME doing an "rm -rf .gconf" is a reset of the desktop
state and should get you back to sanity. Ditto with ".mozilla" for
firefox.

Alan