DAMTP GNOME Help

• Help on Gnome

  Gnome comes with its own help pages. Access them via the System menu. System -> Help.

• My panel icons have changed to question marks

  If your panel icons (or the panel itself) is misbehaving try using the resetgnomepanel command. If that fails please contact a departmental computer officer by emailing help. At worst things may need to be reset to the system defaults (which may have slightly changed since your account was created).

• Change the Applications menu

  To change the Applications menu use the program called alacarte, this allows you to reorder the programs and hide/show an item. This program lives at /usr/bin/alacarte.

• GNOME is in a strange state - when I select an item nothing comes up

  Gnome sometimes get into this state after a powercut if it has left a lock file behind and is getting confused.
  Remove the lock files e.g.:

  rm ~/.gconfd/lock/*
  

  Make sure that their are no gnome processes called gconfd belonging to you on the computer.

• GNOME has hung all I can see is the background screen.

  Try reseting your gnome session.

   mv .gnome2/session .gnome2/session.backup