Re: GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed.

[Darío Mariani <dmarian fi uba ar>]

  Search for .gnome* file and directories in your home dir.

Panos Tsapralis wrote:
> My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I 
> log on to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can 
> understand that they refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign 
> above the "OK" button), all menus are gone, no panel to the bottom of 
> the screen and I have to press "Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace" in order to exit 
> from this mess. What makes me even more unhappy is that my beloved 
> Evolution mail client has also been crippled.
>
> I strongly suspect that this happened when I installed the "xfce" window 
> manager (it requested that I execute some "xfce_setup" script, which 
> apparently modified various GNOME-related configuration files).
>
> Now, the question is: how can I bring my GNOME desktop back to life? Is 
> there any initialisation script, that I can execute in order to recreate 
> the GNOME configuration files? Should I uninstall & reinstall the RPM 
> packages? If yes, which packages are included in the GNOME desktop?
>
> I have a rather recent backup of my home directory, but I do not know 
> which directories / files to restore.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated...