[GRLUG] odd GNOME app behavior for one user but not another

[Don Wood]

any files for this app in her home dir in .gnome2 or .gnome_private?



On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 15:00 -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
> My wife has a problem with a GNOME app (gnomesword) that I do not have
> on the same machine.  When I am logged in the app runs just fine.  When
> she tries to run it, she gets an error message that states, "The
> Application 'gnomesword' has quit unexpectedly."  Nothing else.  When
> she starts the app from a commandline, the only output from the app is
> "Initiating GNOME session handler" and then another prompt (after the
> GNOME dialog box is closed).  I deleted the subdirectory containing all
> the gnomesword settings.  This is regenerated when gnomesword is run
> for the "first" time (in that there are no prior settings).  The app
> will not start.  Whenever I run it, it works just fine.  What really
> puzzles me is that this is on the same machine.  Any ideas?