Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

[Jake Dancer]

Thank you.  Now I can make a copy of the "user" file and experiment with
fixing my problem, knowing I can copy the original file back, if I mess
up.  The name and location of this file is what I was missing.

Jake


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

>  On 01/07/14 10:18, Jake Dancer wrote:
>
>
>   Hello,
>     I'm running with a fully updated Fedora 20 system.  When I click on
> the "activities" icon in the upper left corner, I get the favorites list,
> except the bottom part is now cut off.  I believe Gnome should be switching
> to a small set of icons for the list.  Up until a few days ago I would see
> the complete list using smaller icons, but no longer.  I have quite a few
> packages installed on this system, so it's possible that one of them is
> messing up Gnome's icon switching software.  Does anyone have any idea
> where Gnome hides the favorites list?  I think it should be in my home
> directory, but multiple searches have not located it.   I have this problem
> on multiple machines, but they all have the same packages installed.  What
> I would like to do is temporarily remove each favorite item, one at a
> timeto see which icron is causing the trouble/  Any better ideas to try?
>
>
> Not being a GNOME user I don't have any particular better idea.  However,
> your suggestion has one "problem".  The information about favorites it kept
> in ~/.config/dconf/user and is not plain text.
>
> [egreshko at meimei dconf]$ pwd
> /home/egreshko/.config/dconf
> [egreshko at meimei dconf]$ file user
> user: GVariant Database file, version 0
>
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