Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

> I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the
> icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and
> some launchers I had set up are gone.

> Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was?

Some easy suggestions:  Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, 
might help (press Alt+F2, then in the run application box, type
nautilus).  If this fails, then close the xserver down, and start it
back up again, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then you can log
back into gnome, and hopefully everything works.  If this fails, then
maybe shutting your computer off, getting a cup of coffee (or a beer),
relaxing for a minute, and then turning your computer on will work.

If nothing works, I do strongly feel that the coffee or beer (or both)
will still help put some important perspective on the situation.

Mark