the same thing happened to me recently and to get it working again i just reset the gnome variables and session variables by deleting them<br><br>rm -rf .gnome*<br>rm -rf .gconf*<br>and rm session var i for get what it is called
<br>do it on another login or a terminal by login by doing ctrl+alt+F1 and then ctrl+alt+F7 to get back<br><br>tell me if this helps<br>bob<br><a href="mailto:bob.rowing@gmail.com">bob.rowing@gmail.com</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">paul</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@paulcosta.com">paul@paulcosta.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
K O wrote:<br>> Folks:<br>><br>> I'm having a problem with GNOME on my laptop. I have lost the title<br>> bar in my apps, not allowing even moving their windows, as well as the<br>> ability to switch desktops. (My pre-defined keystrokes don't work,
<br>> and the applet in the panel is not visible.) If it matters, then it's<br>> a Fedora 7 system.<br>> 1. This happened after a boot from a cold start.<br>> 2. No updates were performed during the last successful boot.
<br>> 3. KDE comes up fine.<br>> 4. GNOME under a different username comes up fine.<br>> 5. I ran yum to update. No visible results.<br>> 6. I uninstalled and reinstalled gnome-panel and all dependencies.
<br>> Again, no visible results.<br>> 7. I booted off an Ubuntu cd and ran fsck. No errors.<br>> 8. Windows appear in the upper left hand corner on top of the panel.<br>> 9. Mouse pointer position determines active windows. I didn't have
<br>> this option selected before.<br>> 10. The window list will show the app as it's being launched, then<br>> disappears once it's running.<br>> 11, I've tried different themes with the same result.
<br>><br>> Also, something I feel worth mentioning is that after upgrading to<br>> Fedora 7, a 2 cm ^2 patch in the upper left hand of the screen<br>> appears. It almost looks like an area of inverted colors. That area
<br>> is accessible (tho unseen), and disappears after a minute or 2.<br>> Again, this does not happen under a different username, or KDE. Also,<br>> GNOME has been a bit flaky under Fedora 6, but there was nothing a
<br>> relogin didn't usually fix. Not so now.<br>><br>> I don't really know where to begin. I don't even know how to google<br>> this one. All I suspect for now is that some config file within the
<br>> home directory got borked. I could really use a snausage to get me in<br>> the right direction. (My dog could use a snausage too, but here pure<br>> people food lust is at play.) As always, I thank you kindly for
<br>> whatever you can tell me to help.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">
http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>I think it would be faster to just reinstall Gnome instead of spending<br>hours looking for a fix<br>However, I would list my important profile settings before an install so
<br>I could set them back to where they were<br>If it continues after a reinstall, then I would look into it more.<br>Sounds like one of the Gnome files may be corrupted or a bad link.<br>I have found that trying to trace these types of problems just leads u
<br>down the rabbit hole<br>and a reinstall is more productive- the architecture is irrelevant to me<br>in these situations<br><br>That is how I would approach the problem, but thats me<br><br>Peace<br>_______________________________________________
<br>nflug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br></blockquote></div><br>