Gnome misbehaving

[Robin Laing]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This email is coming via the torture which is a KDE desktop....
> 
> Gnome is playing silly buggers and I'm at a loss as to why - nothing is
> showing in the logs. I login and get the the Fedora "box" which normally
> shows what is loading. It shows metacity and that's it. Nothing else.
> 
> KDE fires up without a problem, but not Gnome.
> 
> Any ideas what may have broken? I hate KDE and want my lovely Gnome
> back.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
> 

Had this problem on an account that I moved from FC1 to FC4.  Moved 
the .metacity and .gnome* directories to another location and 
restarted.  All was well after that.