Re: Resetting GNOME configurations

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:58:50 -0500

DaLoverhino wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>>If you just installed it, you have nothing to lose by reinstalling
>
> it.
>
>
> It's a pain to reinstall it again. I'm on a slow computer.
> This advice sounds like the M$ advice that I occasionally here about
> reformatting your harddrive and reinstalling when perhaps a more
> elegant
> solution exists. Thanks anyways.
>
The normal advice, had you a greater investment in your installation,
would have been to restore your home directory from your backup, but if
you just installed it, perhaps you had not done a base-line backup of your
system yet.

To restore the panel is easy enough, but if, as you said, you screwed up
your settings besides, it is just a lot easier to just reinstall the stuff. 

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