Re: Gnome desktop icons are no longer showing
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:12, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On 04 Jun 2003 12:36:38 -0400
> Jeff Self <jself@nngov.com> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:03, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> >>Thus spake Jeff Self:
> >>> I'm running Debian unstable with Gnome 2.2 and Nautilus. Since
> >>> yesterday afternoon, I noticed that my icons are missing. My Home,
> >>> Start Here, Trash and other folders I created myself. I also don't
> >>> have ability to right click on my desktop. Anybody know what I
> >>> should look for? Or is this a new bug with something that was
> >>> updated?
> >>
> >> Sounds like Nautilus is no longer running, since it takes care of
> >> drawing the icons and whatnot on the desktop.
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > I've logged out and logged in as root. The same thing is happening under
> > root as well. So its definitely a system-wide problem. I just don't
> > remember what got updated yesterday. I've uninstalled Nautilus and
> > reinstalled it. I've run dpkg-reconfigure nautilus. No change. No icons,
> > no right-click on desktop.
>
> OK, you've uninstalled, reinstalled, and reconfigured. But is it
> running? Is it starting up properly?
>
> -c
OK everythings working now. I rebooted and everything came back up. I
guess even Linux systems need rebooting sometimes.
--
Jeff Self
Information Technology Analyst
City of Newport News
Personnel Department
2400 Washington Drive
Newport News, VA 23607
757-926-3741
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