fix a broken gnome desktop ?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 11 July 2014, Mike Wright sent:
> Usually there is no mouse after this happens.  A "return" returns me
> to the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops
> from there, all of which work. 

Do you have a second test login to try out, one without any
configuration customisations stored in it?

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.