Fedora Gnome Woes

[Prasanth Kumar]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 07:45, Rich Reardon wrote:
> I did not install Open Office from the Fedora ISO's, but Gnome seems to want
> to see part of it anyway. Specifically, the message I get when I log out (I
> typically go into gnome with startx) is:
> 
> "Unable to open desktop file
> applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop for panel launcher.
> Error reading file 'applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop':
> file not found"
> 
> I get similar burps for Open office spreadsheet and presentations ".desktop"
> files.
> 
> Also -- perhaps related -- there are three warnings which read: "(nautilus:
> 1940) Warning xx: destroyed file still being monitored."
> 
> Any config files I can hack to save gnome some unnecessary work?
> Thanks.
> 
> Rich Reardon
> Digital Media Center/Univ. of Minnesota
> reardon at umn.edu
> 

The likely problem is that by default Fedora's Gnome Panel has a couple
of icons related to Open Office on it. Search the directory
~/.gnome2/panel2.d for .desktop files related the Open Office and delete
them.

-- 
Prasanth Kumar