[desktop-discuss] Oops! "Start" button has disappeared.

[Calum Benson]

On 27 Aug 2006, at 20:22, Ron Halstead wrote:

>
> So I reinstalled snv_46. Now the "Start" button in the root session  
> works as it should, but it is still absent in my own session.  
> Obviously, the config file is in my home directory which is zfs and  
> the pool is exported during OS installations, so desktop  
> configuration doesn't change between installations. Can someone  
> please educate me as to where this config file is so I can fix my  
> problem. Your help is appreciated.

Sounds a bit like the bug I was having last week, which was caused by  
a relocation of the libXau* libraries between builds (from /usr/ 
openwin/lib to /usr/lib).  If that's what it is, a bit of judicious  
symlinking, or logging in with dtlogin rather than gdm, should help.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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