Comment 18 for bug 93613

Ok, this is solved for me, but I'm not sure what did it. Browsing the Ubuntu forums I found the problem may be a permissions issue. They mentioned it could be the permissions/user/group on the .ICEauthority file, but I don't think that was the case for me. I even deleted the file (it comes back, so that's ok) but the problem persisted. So I created a new user and saw that everything worked for him. I, then, compared the everything I could (with 'ls -al') between my user and the new one and couldn't find any differences. So I moved all my hidden folders into a temporary folder with 'mkdir ~/hidden && mv .* ~/hidden'. Then I logged in and it was all good. Next I slowly started moving things back from the hidden folder. I'll let you know which folder was the problematic one, but if it's .gconf, i'm not descending into its subfolders!