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

[Jake Dancer]

Update.   Now that I know where Gnome keeps my favorites information, I
made a copy of this database file, then started removing entries from my
favorites.  The icons resize feature is still working.  I got down to a
single icon, which I could not remove.  (There was no option to remove the
last icon available.)  I then removed the "user" file completely and
rebooted.  The "user" file returned with the single icon I had left.  There
must be another copy of the information from this file somewhere else.  Any
ideas where?  I then began adding icons into my favorites selection.  Each
icron was added to the bottom of the chain, as they should.  As the
favorites icron chain got to the bottom of the screen, the chain scrolled
off the bottom.  I could still add icons but I could not see the bottom 3,
or so, icons that I added last.  As I added even more icons, the chain
resized to use smaller icons, but I still could not see the bottom 3.  It
us almost as if somewhere something believes the screen is actually deeper
that it really is by an inch or two.  Any ideas how to fix this?  Any ideas
how to get the gnome-shell to rebuild the "user" file?  Any ideas at all?

Jake


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Jake Dancer <jakedancer007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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