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Bottom menu panel disappeared from the desktop

Bottom menu panel disappeared from the desktop

2003-04-27 - By Keith Mastin

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> I am evaluating Red Hat Linux 7.2 which I installed recently with all
> default options. After logging on to GNOME the second time as root, the
> bottom menu panel disappeared from the desktop. The only thing visible
> on the desktop is the 3 icons - Home, Start Here and Trash. Also, if I
> open new windows, they do not have title bars on top (the bar with _[]x
> on the top right). During installation, I created another user,
> 'Sample'. If I log on as Sample, the bottom menu panel is there and all
> windows appear normal with title bars on top. How can this problem be
> corrected for the root login? A display setting perhaps?

I ran into this before, and the fix was to delete all the .gnome files and
directories in the /root directory (from the console) and then do startx.

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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070

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