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post #21 of 25
2/11/04 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by SEMC
Thank ya'll for your support, but I am still having issues with Linux in class. We were learning about mounting drives in my Unix Admin class and I somehow managed to delete my desktop icons, menus, etc. So now I am looking at a blue GNOME screen with no means of shutting down the computer because I don't have a log off icon or any menus.

How do I get all of my menus back?
Before I try to help, we should all be clear on definitions here. What you describe above isn't a "Linux" problem - the same thing happens with Windows if you decide to delete or move the wrong files.

Before you bail on KDE or GNOME (problems noted, but bloating isn't an issue right now), you need to start poking around your /homedir. In redhat v8, I *think* all the Desktop stuff is under ~/.gnome-desktop (in v9, it's all under ~/Desktop). Does that directory exist anywhere? Did you remove it, mount over it, rename it?

In the worst-case scenario, you can create a new user and, with a little work, move over the config files to your old directory. Or, if you've got nothing important under your homedir, just delete yourself and re-add. It's the same thing you'd suggest to someone who blew away his settings in Windows XP...
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post #22 of 25
2/11/04 at 5:56pm
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No files were deleted. I somehow turned everything off. Rebooting computer or desktop switching still results in GNOME not having any icons or menus anymore. KDE has all of the stuff, but when I switch back everything is gone. No files were deleted. Today we learned about mounting drives, but didn't do it yet.
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post #23 of 25
2/11/04 at 6:29pm
Easy fix: Delete the .gnome (or .gnome2, or both, depending on your version) directories under your home directory outside of GNOME, then go back in. That'll reset GNOME back to defaults.
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post #24 of 25
2/11/04 at 6:32pm
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Ok, I'll try that tomorrow.
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post #25 of 25
2/12/04 at 5:55pm
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Couldn't find .gnome or .gnome2

Ok, I tried renaming/deleting gnome folders and stuff, but no change to desktop. I now have the correct term for what is missing: panels. All of my panels are gone. I spent a good hour recreating one. I now have one panel that works.

The college is running RedHat 7.2 in a lab at school (my UNIX class) and each of us has our own hard-drive. That is where I am doing my testing since I don't have it installed at home.

My biggest peeve right now is the menus and their contents. The names of the contents of the menus are not user friendly, and the organization is non-existant. It seems that settings for the hardware and the OS are spread out across at least 5 different menus and in random order. I imagine that I could manually organize them, but first I have to learn what each and every applet and item does.

Although it did take me about 4 months to learn how to turn off all of the unnecessary settings off on XP, this UNIX/Linux learning curve is gonna be steeper.
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