Old Gnome - New Gnome

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:01 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> It seems that if you have a common home directory that you reuse from 
> fedora version to fedora version, you cannot automatically go into the 
> gnome shell in F15 Alpha gnome 3.  I have a home directory that has been 
> around since about Fedora 6. I don't know what all you have to 
> eliminate--I just cleared out all gconf* gnome* gtk* metacity folders 
> and now Fedora 15 RC2 goes into the shell when logging on to the 
> desktop. Before I had to issue a gnome-shell --replace in a terminal.
> 
> I wonder what other problems reusing was/is causing?

This is probably just
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679326 , and you don't hit
it with a clean configuration because less stuff is happening at startup
so gnome-session-is-accelerated manages to complete in time.
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