[PLUG] It just happened again (Resolved)

Bruce kd7vvk at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 19:37:56 UTC 2009


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:04:17 -0800
> Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us> dijo:
>
>   
>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>     
>>> I did, but the results were inconclusive.
>>>
>>> The results of diff are hard to read and understand. Finally, I just did diff
>>> --brief and figured I would look at the files in Gedit or something myself
>>> manually. Even that didn't help. And sometimes diff lied. For example, it
>>> said two small text files were different, but when I opened them in Gedit and
>>> compared them line by line they were identical, at least as to content.
>>>       
>> As Tony pointed out diff pays attention to whitespace - in some cases that is
>> very relevant.  
>>
>> Consider using context diff, the -c option, to be presented with the most 
>> human readable diff output.
>>     
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I finally nailed it.
>
> The ~/.local-original/share/applications folder for the new user had only two
> files. My ~/local/share/applications folder has many entries. I don't know what
> they do. Some appear to be part of the Applications menu, but others clearly
> are not. And I also have launchers in Applications that are not reflected in a
> file in this folder. 
>
> However, I was especially interested in a file called metacity.desktop. I noted
> that the new user's original folder did not contain this file. I tried to
> rename it, but Nautilus would not let me. I certainly own the file and have rw
> permissions for it, but Nautilus just wouldn't let me. No matter, as root from
> the command line I renamed it metacity.desktop.old. Then I rebooted. And after
> logging in metacity launched as it is supposed to. Everything else seems to be
> working normally.
>
> I have no idea what rogue process created this file.
>
> It is a text file that can be opened with Gedit. Looking at the contents I see
> nothing that says "don't launch metacity for this user." 
>
> If any of the Gnome users on this list have such a file, it would be
> interesting to compare notes. I feel an obligation to file a bug report, but I
> in order to make the bug report useful I need to figure out what is the purpose
> of the file, what created it, and where it went wrong.
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John,

I don't have that file in Ubuntu 9.10.  The only thing close is 
"gnomecc.desktop".

Hope your disappearing desktop is solved!!

Bruce



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