Comment 30 for bug 349519

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Scott Evans (vk7hse) wrote : Re: [Bug 349519] Re: Switch Desktop Mode corrupted settings (ASUS Eee PC 701SD)

Ok will do first thing in the morning! it's 00:42 here and the eye lids
are heavy! ;)

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:26 +0000, Neil J. Patel wrote:

> The attached switcher explicitly sets the components list in gconf,
> which should stop components going missing :)
>
> To test properly (and to eliminate any other possibilities), could you
> please do the following:
>
> 1. Create a new user for testing and log in as user (don't use fast-user-switch as the launcher can't run like that)
> 2. Verify that the user has the standard UNR netbook-mode setup
> 3. Run `sudo dpkg -r --force-all desktop-switcher` to remove the current desktop-switcher and all it's config files
> 3.1 Run `rm -rf ~/.config/desktop-switcher`, which should fail saying that the directory doesn't exist
> 4. Install the attached desktop-switcher package via `sudo dpkg -i desktop-switcher_0.4.4-1ubuntu2_i386.deb`
> 5. Open a terminal and run `desktop-switcher`, switch to classic mode (and please save the output)
> 6. Logout and log back in to the test user. Verify that panels are present. If not, please attach the panel and session gconftool-2 --dump output
> 7. Once again, please run `desktop-switcher` in a terminal, and switch back to netbook-mode. Once again, please save the console output of desktop-switcher.
> 8. Log-out/log-in to the test user and please verify that the panels are still there.
>
> Thanks again for the time your putting into this :)
>
> ** Attachment added: "desktop-switcher_0.4.4-1ubuntu2_i386.deb"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25113037/desktop-switcher_0.4.4-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
>

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