Re: Can no-one help? Gnome has lost all but the basic icons on desktop
This is definately becoming a monlogue!!
Further to my problem of desktop icons missing from Gnome (gmc) I now
have a solution. I am surprised no-one pointed it out, but there again I
only tried it as a last resort.
I created a new user and found that this user had all the correct Gnome
icons on the desktop. This led me to suspect the configuration files in
my home directory. I removed ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome-desktop and logged in
as me.
I must say I was very pleased to see that I now had all my desktop icons
intact.
I think that upgrading from Storm Rain (=Slink) to Potato (and hence
upgrading to Potato Gnome apps and libs) caused the problem. I
understand it is part of Debian received wisdom that no file in ~/ is
tampered with during an install or upgrade. Is this so?
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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