what is keeping per-user state outside of user's $HOME ?

[John Ellson]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
> Why don't we stop all this blind guessing, and attach a debugger to the
> panel instead ? It would be so much easier...
>
>   
Because I'm not a gdb expert, and I don't know what to look for in 
gnome-panel, or even why you think gnome-panel is the place to look?

If you wouldn't mind helping out with some more detailed suggestions, 
perhaps offline from this list, then I'm willing to try.

-- 
John Ellson