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Re: [PLUG] Blank Gnome Desktop
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On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Ben Love wrote:
> * Jeff Bailey (skydiver38@verizon.net) wrote:
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>> I still get the same issue - root can log in and get a desktop, but
>> my
>> user can't. I get a graphical login prompt and can log in, but when
>> it switches to the desktop, it just goes black.
>
> This sounds like something is definitely wrong with your user. Try
> creating a new (non-privileged) user, to make sure its not a
> permissions
> thing.
Coming to this kinda late. If you haven't fixed this yet, I'd create
a new user that you can live with and move all of the data, not the
configs, to the new user and chown.
I had to do this once, and I can live with user, arthur, as well as
user, art.
Unlike windows, Linux can usually be fixed, and fixing it can be a
learning experience that has enduring value. But sometimes, it just
isn't worth the effort, and a fix like this is more efficient.
I don't have any familiarity with your distro, other than looking at
it once, but if you were told an upgrade isn't recommended, and to do
a fresh install, I suspect that that applies to user configs as well
as the non-home stuff.
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