Gnome-shell weather extension hung
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Tue Apr 8 18:20:42 UTC 2014
On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 00:45 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 07 April 2014, Matthew Saltzman sent:
> > I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and I've tried
> > to locate files or settings that should be cleared or reset
>
> General advice: Un-installing and reinstalling rarely helps, this isn't
> Windows. You would have had to have a screw up during install, or some
> random error, for installed files to go amiss. Something I've never
> seen, in umpteen years of using Linux. Not that it's impossible, but
> quite unlikely. And un-installing does not remove configuration files
> that you've created. So, a re-install will get the same configuration.
I know all that, but ran out of ideas after killing anything that looked
to me like a configuration file or cache file in my home directory
didn't help.
>
> If you can't find the configuration files, you can try creating a new
> user (a new user has less files for you to look for). Wait a moment or
> two, configure what you want to investigate, then look for configuration
> files with that timestamp on them.
Was getting close to that, but hoped somebody would have a simpler
solution.
Thanks for the suggestions.
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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