Re: lost my desktop[SOLVED]
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Mark Neidorff wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 08:35 am, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>>> Frank McCormick wrote:
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>>>> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:22, Frank McCormick <debian@videotron.ca>
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>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>>>> Well not all of it -- my regular icons have been replaced by generic
>>>>>>> looking white ones....and when I click on 'em (I WAS configured to
>>>>>>> single-click) the desktop files open in a text editor.
>>>>>>>
>>> Does it happen to all users on your system? If not, move .gnome, .gconf
>>> etc, out of the way and see if it helps
>> Yes all users are affected....I've already tried moving several
>> directories and seemingly-related files out of the way but no luck. This
>> is really annoying.
>
> OK. How about restarting X? (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) I don't use Gnome, but I
> have had a similar problem with KDE once (and that is once in a long, long
> time), and restarting X fixed it. Also, check swap space.
>
>
Nope...X has been restarted dozens of times. Fixed it this morning
after I realized that Nautilus obviously didn't know what to do with
desktop files...that's why it was opening them in a text editor.
Reinstalling mime-support and shared-mime-info brought the desktop back.
Best I can figure is that removing an icon theme and a gtk2 engine
somehow screwed mime support on this machine.
Thanks for everyones suggestions though.
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