On 22 Jan 2008, at 9:19 pm, Martyn Drake wrote:
Hello,
Having ham-fisted my way through trying to fix a knackered user account on RHEL 5 that is using Gnome/Metacity (i.e. the RedHat desktop), I can't seem to copy a set of healthy files across - the WM still moans about missing files and the what not. Is there a utility that I could run to re-generate a set of default working files so that the user can at least re-do their old settings manually? I confess ignorance to Gnome/Metacity, but then again, I'm not one for using Linux on the desktop these days, so I'm a bit out of practice..
Does it work if you log in as a different user? If that is the case you could try moving the .gnome(2) and .gconf(2) folders out of the way in the broken user's home directory and see if that makes any difference.