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Hi,
I've just installed RH7.3. After a couple of logins as root, the gnome panel disappeared! I should i recover the panel? Logging in as other users seems fine.
thanks
pyeo
try deleting your $HOME/.gnome/session , in this case /root/.gnome/session. That file contains the information about your last gnome session. and if you delete it once then the system will restore it with default values.
As a rule of tumb and a good security practice DON'T LOGIN AS ROOT INTOGUI ENVIRONMENT. It is very easy to render your system unusable doing so. Use sudo or /bin/su in terminal to become temporarly priveldged user (root for instance) to do anything that requires escalated priveldges.
The gnome panel is appropriately named panel. If you delete your .gnome directory you will (probably) lose the settings of some other gnome apps (I deleted the .kde dir to save space once and lost all the addresses I had saved with kaddressbook... doh). Perhaps adding panel to your autoload or autostart or whatever it's called would help.
i installed rh 8 in my sys. and i got a similar problem as urs.
ie; the panel disappeared when i login as root . how can i recover it. panel & didnt work. pls give me a solution if u know
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