Location of Gnome boot scripts

[Natael]

I went to Startup Programs and put "compiz --replace" as a load script command, now Gnome, let alone a login screen or command line, wont load. I'm trying to find which file has the boot scripts so I can use a live CD to edit them and save me the slight trouble of reloading the OS (which wouldent be that big of a deal as I haddent done anything with it yet).

Not sure if perhaps I should have made a .sh file and directed that path to startup programs instead. I'm rather new to linux and was following some (or at least what looked like) straight forward for dummies instructions.

Thank you for the help,

[barriehie]

I went to Startup Programs and put "compiz --replace" as a load script command, now Gnome, let alone a login screen or command line, wont load. I'm trying to find which file has the boot scripts so I can use a live CD to edit them and save me the slight trouble of reloading the OS (which wouldent be that big of a deal as I haddent done anything with it yet).

Not sure if perhaps I should have made a .sh file and directed that path to startup programs instead. I'm rather new to linux and was following some (or at least what looked like) straight forward for dummies instructions.

Thank you for the help,

Oops! Easiest way is to open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) after boot and:

compiz --replace & # This runs it in the background so you get the term. back
exit # Exit the terminal

then save the session: System > Preferences > Sessions > Session Options

Now that you've got it to where it won't boot a GUI try restarting and choose single user from your grub menu and you'll be dropped to a root terminal. Then look in /home/Your_Username/.config/autostart and see if you've got any kind of entry looking like compiz. Worst case you can find it by the date/time stamp and then remove it.

[Natael]

Only thing under /home is my user name, only thing under /home/my_name is Desktop, which holds nothing.

Is there any mechanism for logging in and disabling all startup programs while I start up gnome?

[barriehie]

This should work, from a terminal, as root:

aptitude purge compiz && aptitude install compiz
exit

After you restart you can use compiz --replace & from a terminal and then save the session.