Ubuntu
gconf2 package

  1. Bug #8077
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 8077

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

(In reply to comment #14)
> Maybe so. But I never had such problems with my Slackware. But I do on
> Ubuntu.

Run 'kill -s HUP `pidof gconfd-2`' 2 times on your slackware and try the desktop
switcher again.
gconf is supposed to reload the schemas database on a SIGHUP and apparently
there is a problem in there. But slackware probably doesn't use this feature.

> Slackware. It seems that after we make the gnome desktop updates via
> Synaptic the gconfd server is not relaunched? (or something?)

No, it's not, the system is not supposed to kill user's servers.