Linux Gnome Toolbar Disappeared ...

[Tanya556]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to Linux. I have a client running Linux RedHat 7.2 and when they logged into there system the Gnome toolbar disappeared. It was there before(they said). Now when I reboot the system, I log in as root and several of Terminal windows pop up and the toolbar is missing.

How can I get the toolbar back on the desktop?

Oh, by the way, I do have the Home and Trash icons on the desktop.

Thank you in advance.

 

[RhythmAce]

It's been many moons since I've had that problem but I seem to remember doing something like:

gnome-panel-properties-capplet

They may have to log out then back in again. If this doesn't work, you'll have to get down and dirty by deleting all the gnome stuff in the home directory. These files and directories are hidden so you'll have to type "ls -a" to see them. When the user logs back in, everything will be replaced with brand new stuff just like the first time they logged in. This means you could actually wipeout their entire home directory and they will get all new stuff. This isn't the best idea though if they have e-mail in their local folder.

 

[flugh]

You can lessen the deletion by just rm -rf the ~/.gnome* stuff. Sounds like the session got funktified and gnome isn't even starting (probably twm and some xterms). Do the 'telinit 3' thing to turn off the display manager. From the command line, try 'startgnome' (not sure if it lived in the RH 7.3 days?). Or maybe 'gnome-session'. If there's a desktop "chooser" available (gnome-desktop-chooser rings a bell), try running it and choosing gnome, as it should clean that up for you.

Another suggestion (run as any user you want, not just root)

cat > ~/.xinitrc
startgnome
^D
chmod 700 ~/.xinitrc
startx

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JBR

 

[Tanya556]

Thanks guys.

I went in and removed some broken gnome files and rebooted the system and it all came back to normal.

Thanks!