groundhog day

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:18 -0600, Ken Dyke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> core 5 upgraded from core 4
> 
> upper toolbar > system > logout
> 
> The pop-up use to have a checkbox to save session.  A feature I really
> liked.  It would restore my current session (including my galeon
> session) the next time I startx.
> 
> The checkbox is gone.  Now everytime I startx I get the desktop session
> I logged out of when I went to do the upgrade to core 5.
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If you paid attention to the movie...you've got your work cut out for
you.

Seriously, I've often had issues with upgrades of gnome and after an
upgrade, I just...

prior to login, press <Control><Alt><F1> to get a virtual console

log in as myself...

mv .gnome .gnome-bak
mv .gnome2 .gnome2-bak
mv .gconf .gconf-bak
mv .gconf3 .gonfd-bak

and then press <Alt><F7> and login and I have all the GNOME defaults
again. You will probably need to copy some stuff back (evolution stuff
if you use evolution (i.e. 'mv .gconf-bak/apps/evolution/ .gconf/apps')

Craig