I have a RH9 2.4.20-31.9 running gnome with bluecurve for many months.

I did a shutdown and then started the box back up.
No I did not install/uninstall anything this

The icons on the desktop top seems to be all there,
but the desktop switcher is no longer on the bottom menu bar
and all applications start in the top left corner of the monitor.
Applications longer start in terminal windows.
Mozilla will nolonger accept a url being typed in. Many other similar issues.

I have done considerable googling for something simular
but nothing so far has turned up.

I switch to startup with KDE rather than gnome and everything works great.

Any ideas why gnome would lose its mind would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Did you change your Metacity window theme from bluecurve? Did you update Bluecurve or Metacity? If so, you may have changed it to a broken theme, or Metacity may itself be broken. Another possibility is some screwed up process in your session, but that's a bit less likely with these symptoms.

Try using the Failsafe GNOME session (should be listed in your DM's session list) and see if that works properly. If so, then there may well be a conflict with something in your session (check the session manager in the GNOME Control Panel, and the System Monitor on the panel to try and eliminate it). Also try opening the GNOME Control Panel and changing your theme to a preinstalled one, Gorilla or Wasp or something. If a different theme does not display the issue, then the problem would seem to be Bluecurve; if all themes display the issue, the problem is most likely Metacity.

Once you've identified what's going on, we can see what we can do to fix it.

You do realize that this is the WQnS forum and questions/queries regarding this website belong here.

This thread would have been much better suited/answered in the Linux-General as it would have got the attention it deserves. No need to create a new thread now, this thread has been reported and will be moved accordingly.

Oops, sorry, never noticed (was just answering threads in the 0 replies email I get daily).

Bad fredantrobus!



Thanks for the catch, LinuxLala.

// thread has been moved.

--jeremy