fix a broken gnome desktop ? [solved]

[Mike Wright]

07/12/2014 11:55 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:21:06 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Mike Wright sent:
> ...snip...
>>> Rhetorical question of the day: "Why are gnome3's hidden
>>> directories named .gnome2 ?
>
> I don't think it does.
>
> gnome3 (along with most other applications and DE's have moved to the
> xdg standard. So, config files are under .config/ and so on.
>
> if you have .gnome2 directories I suspect they are leftover from a long
> time ago and not used. Do you see anything updating files under there
> anymore? Which ones?

Thanks for the tip Kevin.  I deleted the .gnome directories before I 
logged back into Gnome3, but I've also logged into Xfce4.  So I just 
deleted them again and logged into Gnome3.  They are not there. 
Everything is pointing at Xfce4 which confuses me because it has its own 
.xfce4 directory.

I'll keep my eyes open for the next few days and avoid Xfce4.  That 
should give me an unequivocal answer.