Re: Can no-one help? Gnome has lost all but the basic icons on desktop
Thank you for pointing out the way out. You didn't get any answers probably because no
one knew how to fix it, or what was going on. Thanks again, the problem and the
solution will remain in the archives for future references.
Phillip Deackes wrote:
> 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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