linux is making fun of me (mucked up monday)

By basd on Mar 9, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome

Okay, so my computer was working fine today (until I re-booted it).

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Then the fun began, since it is MUCKED UP MONDAY!!! (And I thought I was going to get some work done...)

Having written about my plasma problems -- and the fact that I've been running plasma on top of a gnome login, both gnome and plasma rebelled. Plasma crashed out altogether, so I killed the plasma*.rc files and started over.

But gnome was not having fun yet and wanted to join the party. So, suddenly my gnome panel was re-sorting all of the icons -- just as plasma has been doing.

But gnome apparently felt it had been radically out-done by plasma, so it reached deep for some newer and better aggravating tricks. Suddenly, my right and bottom panels decided to move left and top. The icons resorted themselves. And, when I try to move the panels, the properties dialog started laughing at me. The panel at the left refuses to unlock and the panel at the top immediately switches back to "top" before my very eyes, when I switch it to "bottom".

For extra measure, some sort of lag is going on -- my screen is flickering and my typing here in the blog is lagging several words behind where I am actually typing.

Then for extra, extra measure, it started running two compiz-fusion icons instead of one.

Are you kidding me???

(It didn't help to login in a true Gnome session on top of Metacity windows manager. And ... unlike kde, I do not know where all the configuration settings are for gnome so I can't wipe out the probably screwed up config files and start over.)

I guess I can try making a new user -- but that involves a lot of monkeying around because I have script files that are hard-coded to my current user.

My windows box that answers the phone isn't working so well, either, because the MS bloatware updates have slowed it down to a crawl and also rendered my phone answering software inoperable.

This is a quadruple ARRRGHHH!!! monday.

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Okay, so I can kill the gnome-panel configuration by deleting ./gconf/apps/panel. But after tediously rebuilding the panels, the one on the right moves back to the left side after logging out and logging back in. Sheesh. What is causing this?