openSUSE 12.3 Gnome desktop corrupted!

Following a recent, in the last 3 days, install of security and suggested updates the original Gnome desktop has been significantly modified.
The favorites down the LHS of the screen have gone, the selection and hence the grouping of programs from the RHS of the screen is no longer available - and its been replaced by what looks like a very basic drop down menu of limited choices.
The text and icon sizes at the top of the screen have increased in size. Very annoying.

How do I get back to the original Gnome desktop provided with the distro?
>:(

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:06:02 +0000, johnbh wrote:

> Following a recent, in the last 3 days, install of security and
> suggested updates the original Gnome desktop has been significantly
> modified.
> The favorites down the LHS of the screen have gone, the selection and
> hence the grouping of programs from the RHS of the screen is no longer
> available - and its been replaced by what looks like a very basic drop
> down menu of limited choices.
> The text and icon sizes at the top of the screen have increased in size.
> Very annoying.
>
> How do I get back to the original Gnome desktop provided with the
> distro?
>>:(

Can you tell us a little bit about your configuration - version of
openSUSE and video card would be useful pieces of information. :slight_smile:

Jim


Jim Henderson
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johnbh wrote:
>
> Following a recent, in the last 3 days, install of security and
> suggested updates the original Gnome desktop has been significantly
> modified.
> The favorites down the LHS of the screen have gone, the selection and
> hence the grouping of programs from the RHS of the screen is no longer
> available - and its been replaced by what looks like a very basic drop
> down menu of limited choices.
> The text and icon sizes at the top of the screen have increased in
> size. Very annoying.
>
> How do I get back to the original Gnome desktop provided with the
> distro?
>> :frowning:
>
>
1.) kindly post zypper lr -d with

 tags
2.) create a new user using *user menu*(top right)==>click on the
"person" icon ==> Unlock ==>click on "+"and create user ==>click on
"Account disabled" and set password ==> and login into that new user and
check whether same problem exists.
--
GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:06:02 +0000, johnbh wrote:
>
>> Following a recent, in the last 3 days, install of security and
>> suggested updates the original Gnome desktop has been significantly
>> modified.
>> The favorites down the LHS of the screen have gone, the selection and
>> hence the grouping of programs from the RHS of the screen is no longer
>> available - and its been replaced by what looks like a very basic drop
>> down menu of limited choices.
>> The text and icon sizes at the top of the screen have increased in size.
>> Very annoying.
>>
>> How do I get back to the original Gnome desktop provided with the
>> distro?
>>> :frowning:
>
> Can you tell us a little bit about your configuration - version of
> openSUSE and video card would be useful pieces of information. :slight_smile:
>
> Jim
>
>
>
openSUSE version is in the thread header :wink:


GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

>:( Issue solved. Wasn´t updates that cause the corruption of the desktop, it was me! I had a fiddle with settings including the Graphics: Intel lvybridge Mobile Forced feedback was OFF - I put it ON. Reverting that setting back to OFF and rebooting has everything back to normal.

Much relieved. Thanks for the quick responses, much appreciated.

Gnome 3.6.2 64 bit
openSUSE 12.3
Kernel linux 3.7.10-1.16-Desktop

johnbh wrote:
>
>> :frowning: Issue solved. Wasn´t updates that cause the corruption of the
> desktop, it was me! I had a fiddle with settings including the Graphics:
> Intel lvybridge Mobile Forced feedback was OFF - I put it ON.
> Reverting that setting back to OFF and rebooting has everything back to
> normal.
>
> Much relieved. Thanks for the quick responses, much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Gnome 3.6.2 64 bit
> openSUSE 12.3
> Kernel linux 3.7.10-1.16-Desktop
>
>
I guess you switched to the original GNOME Shell desktop :slight_smile:
It was not corrupted at all. Shell application icons are naturally large :smiley:

GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop