Hi

I'm running SUSE 9.1 with gnome. I've run into a problem where gnome is somehow busted after reinstalling grub (yeah, I had to reinstall windows).

I can get gnome up OK, but it's lost all the default file associations and the keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-Tab).

Is there any way I can get all the default gnome settings back? Like by copying files around?

TIA
ws

Hi wiresquire!

Try removing (or renaming if you'are careful) all files at you /home/user that start with .gnome2 or gnome. Then restart Gnome. The very default of Gnome (without your custom modifications, as background, menu and keyboard) should be restored... hopefully

Good luck!

Unfortunately that didn't work. I even tried creating a new user altogether, but it was even worse - fonts were like pixels, menu screwed, black background, Alt-tab and keyboard shortcuts wouldn't work.

But I have good news!

After messing around for hours, and then googling after each error there's a post here that covers the same thing.

The solution is to create a script to regenerate all of the default schemas. The script modified from that page to match weird SUSE file locations is
(need to run as root)

I believe that one of the SuSE Updates/patches (maybe permissions?) caused this problem.

Everything seems to be working OK now!

Thanks for your help - I wouldn't have got to the answer without trying your idea!

ws

Sorry that it got even worse mate... and thanks for sharing it too, very cool reading

No worries. I had backups of all those .gnom*/.gconf* directories, so it was easy enough to copy them back so I could -ahem- actually read stuff

SUSE's worrying me a bit these days. Just little things that stop working after an update. This is my 3rd over the past 6-8 weeks. ACPI/powersaved, then trackpad driver in X, now this.

At least I've stumbled my way to finding workarounds for the trackpad and gnome - with a little help