Re: Desktop icons missing
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:15:02 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote:
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> I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
>
> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the
> launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them
> to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the icons from
> ~/Desktop/ now display properly, but I would like to use gnome-classic.
Have you tried by refresing nautilus?
killall nautilus
Also, you can login with a new user to check if it also happens there.
> 2. How can I examine the menu items to find where the underlying
> programs they call are and are named? I have not yet come to an
> understanding of how this part worsks.
Alacarte was the usual application to deal with GNOME menu items but I
think is broken somehow.
Anyway, menu items (and their inners) are usually placed under:
~/.local/chare/applications/*.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/*.desktop
You can open the ".desktop" files with a text editor to find out what
binary/arguments is calling/using (the "Exec=" line) as well as seeing
additional options set for the launcher.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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