Re: KVM question

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Barry S Densch wrote:
> Thanks Rick. I'll look into a better quality KVM.
>
> Regarding gnome, the mouse really screwed things up to the point of no
> return. I had to remove most of the items from the desktop.

Ewww!

> Q3: Any idea on how I can restore the original configuration file for the
> default Fedora core 3 desktop? Then I'll have all the widgets in front of me
> again so I can start learning more about Linux.

Well, I'd log out as the normal user and log in as root.  Then try going 
to your (not root's) home directory and delete the ".gnome/session"
file:

	rm -f ~username/.gnome/session

Then log out as root and log back in as yourself.

> It's a little different than working mostly command line Solaris and AIX,
> for sure ;-) Now I have to know where the config files for the GUI are kept
> and how to manipulate them.

Most of the stuff is in ~username/.gnome, but it's not the easiest thing
to manipulate.  Gnome (and KDE for that matter) are fairly complex
beasts, driven by lots of XML code in /usr/share/gnome-2.0.  It can be
scary!
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