[Techtalk] Not able to view taskbar!!!

[priya venkateshan]

Now do 'ls -a' and look for directories like
> .gnome
> .gnome2
> .gnome2_private
>
> These contain your personal gnome settings.  You could try renaming these
> which should return gnome to a default state

What should I rename these directories to?

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Conor Daly <c.daly at met.ie> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:26:15AM +0530 or thereabouts, priya venkateshan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have Ubuntu Hardy installed, with gnome desktop environment. All of
>> a sudden when I booted my system this morning, I'm unable to view my
>> taskbar or the menubar!
>> Rebooting is of no use.
>
> Log out of X and switch to a text console with <CTRL><ALT><F1> and login
> there.  Now do 'ls -a' and look for directories like
> .gnome
> .gnome2
> .gnome2_private
>
> These contain your personal gnome settings.  You could try renaming these
> which should return gnome to a default state.  If that works, you should
> look within those directories for any settings you might want to keep though
> it would probably be easier just to re-create the settings within Gnome.
> In particular, .gnome2/keyrings contains your gnome keyring so you may be
> asked to set that up again and to remember all of your ssh / wireless
> keys/passphrases...
>
> Conor
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