[wplug] gnome display messed up for normal users ok for root (resolved)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in October Eric C. Cooper assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:49:40AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
| > There is a guy here who's having trouble with gnome. He logged in today to
| > find the display somewhat unreadable. Sort of like when your monitor
| > resolution is too high --- windows chopped up a bit and appearing in
| > multiple locations. The crux is that it looks fine when root logs in. To
| > test this he first deleted all of his configuration files and then logged
| > in. The same problem was still present. Next he created a new user, logged
| > in as that user, and the problem persisted with the new user. 
| 
| If the display is usable enough, try the "Screen Resolution" control
| panel under Desktop Preferences.

It's strange but he rebooted the computer and it works now. I must admit
that this isn't really a very satisfying solution.

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