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

[Raymond McLaughlin]

I was going to suggest this too. I'm mostly a KDE guy, but I have used
some gnome apps (evolution for one) and been frustrated that some but
not all the settings were kept in it's own dot folder. Definitely grep
around in .gnome or .gnome2, or what ever, for any references to the
app. It could be something as simple as an impossible window size (like
with a negative number) in a recent programs description.

If this yields no joy, and you want to fight with it you can create a
new user, log in as this new user and make sure gnomesword works for
this user. Backup  this new user's config (~/.gnome*) then start copying
config files from you wife's folder to the new user's. When the app
breaks you've found your.

A root shell would be handy here. Start with the most likely sounding
filenames first, and don't forget to chown them so the new user has full
access to them.

God luck
Raymond McLaughlin

Don Wood wrote:
> 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?
> 
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