Thank you! Finally! I knew it had to be some silly setting -dapper to edgy had the same problem with gtk2 apps: some silly setting.
So I moved .gnomerc to the trash and finally my gnome desktop is working properly.
The file ,gnomerc contained a dozen white lines and this one line:
Thank you! Finally! I knew it had to be some silly setting -dapper to edgy had the same problem with gtk2 apps: some silly setting.
So I moved .gnomerc to the trash and finally my gnome desktop is working properly.
The file ,gnomerc contained a dozen white lines and this one line:
export WINDOW_ MANAGER= ~/.gnome- compiz- manager/ openbox
Thank you for guiding me in finding this little but totally disruptive setting! I was fearing I would have to reinstall the root partition altogether.