[Discuss] Technical questions taken at the AGM

[Patrick]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:30:25 -0800
"brent sirna" wrote:

> 
> After the election of the Board we had an informal question and answer
> period. Here are a few of the technical questions that were asked and
> possible solutions.
> 
[...]
> 
> There were two solutions suggested. The first is a plugin call Flash
> Block and the other was I think called script stop or something like
> that. If somebody remembers the name could you please post it.

Noscript, but I don't think that would have any effect on flash
animations.  Might be nice for blocking other, JavaScript-based
irritations though.

> 
> 
> The second question was regards to accidentally removing all the gnome
> panels in your desktop environment. Once you have removed all you
> panels how do you get one back. Two possible solutions were the
> following.
> 
> 1) open up the console and try manually running the application
> gnome-panel and see if this creates a panel.

gnome-panel & exit
might be a good one, because the `&' separates the app from the
terminal, and the `exit' makes sure bash will exit cleanly, without
taking the panel down with it [I've noticed that even programs that
have `split off' from the terminal by using a trailing `&' will still
exit suddenly, if you close the terminal window or otherwise quit the
terminal emulator, instead of typing a proper `exit' at the prompt].

> 
> 2) Create a new user account and transfer all the files over. 

Creating a whole new account over just one fried set of settings does
seem a bit drastic to me.

Anyone know where the Gnome panel keep its configuration files?  I know
the XFCE panel keeps its in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/ , so if *that*
panel's configurations ever went screwy on me, I could just delete the
`panel' folder inside ~/.config/xfce4/ and start over with default
settings [just the panel's defaults though, not a whole new account].

Don't know what to suggest for Gnome though.  At least, I don't know
what file/folder to look in.

> 
> If anybody has alternate solutions to these problems or remembers
> other questions that were asked could you please post them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brent

No no, thank you.  Some follow-up on a meeting, in the list is a good
thing.  Covers things people didn't think to ask at the time, or got
distracted from.  I should do that after a resentation too [Doh!
Still need to send in a proposal/summary/blurb for that Asus EEE
presentation...  Umm, do the BoD email addresses point to the right
people yet?].



Cheers,

Patrick.

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