Adding a new user gnome problems.

[natehall]

I made a new directory with mkdir in the home file. I filled it with stuff I saved. I did a adduser to add it in and chown -R for all the files. Upon boot the new name is listed and the log in works but after that: nothing! Just the background image. How do I get gnome working here?

[kabars_edge]

You didn't get an answer because you didn't provide enough information. You need to tell us the dist/release/gnome ver that you're using, otherwise, we cannot help you.

[atreyu]

Yes, answer the questions asked by kabars_edge, but also...

Did you do the chown command on all of /home/<USER>, e.g.:

chown -R <USER>:<GROUP> /home/<USER>

or did you do it something like this:

chown -R <USER>:<GROUP> /home/<USER>/*

If the latter, and some of the files you copied over were hidden (e.g. ~/.gnome), they got missed by your chown command. Try running the former command to fix it.

Also check these files for errors when you try to log in:

/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
~/.xsession-errors