where'd my icons go [gnome]

[expaul]

Mandrake 9.0

After installing Mdk 9.0 about two weeks ago everything was running smoothly. Now, suddenly there are no icons on my desktop. There use to be a link to my home directory, the cd rom drives, the floppy, and the trashcan as well as one shortcut(link) that i put there. The /home/me/.gnome-desktop directory looks like this:

total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4096 Oct 30 20:04 ./
drwxr-xr-x 34 paul paul 4096 Oct 30 19:48 ../
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 251 Oct 30 08:41 linkgcombust*
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 0 Oct 30 20:04 lsla.txt
-rwx------ 1 paul paul 132 Oct 13 09:34 paul's Home*
-rwx------ 1 paul paul 114 Oct 30 08:42 Trash*


what the?

[busa_blade]

check you preferences from the edit menu in any folder. You may have unchecked the button for Nautilus to draw the desktop. :)

-busa_blade:

[expaul]

The Nautalus Preferences screen contains the following items:

Views
Appearance
Windows
Dektop & Trash
Icon & List Views
Icon Captions
Side Panes
Performance


I'm prety sure ive gone through all of them several times and can find on option for Naut. to draw the desktop or not. Is the checkbox perhaps somewhere else besides Naut.?

[busa_blade]

It's under desktop and trash.

[expaul]

If i log in as root, the option you mentioned is there under desktop and trash. If I log in as anyone other than root, the option does not show up anywhere.

what's a poor newbie to do now?

[busa_blade]

I'm kind of stumped. On mine it is there for all users. I'm not sure what changed. One suggestion is to create a new user and check out that one. You can always get rid of the new user. Once you create the new user check and see if the desktop is there. If it is there, then somehow it looks like your desktop got trashed. Simply copy over the important files from your home directory, remove that user, and recreate him. Then copy the important files back into your home directory. You should be set back up again.

[expaul]

i'm not sure but i think every user gets a unique ID, and so if i delete my main account after backing up all files, then recreate another acount with the same name it'll still have a different ID and so all permissions will be for the old account and i won't have full permission using the new account even though its named the same...that's my suspision anyways.

[Jomboni]

Chose "Home Folder" from your Gnome menu - the option should be in the Preferences bar in there.

[expaul]

Jomboni..no luck there either.

From the Nautalus app when i look at Preferences under the Desktop and Trash tab there is only one frame labeled Trash Behavior, there is no second frame labaled Desktop Behaviour...it just somehow dissapeared.

Is there a such thing as a nautalusrc file that one could go in and try hacking?

[blizz]

Hi,

Try from a xterm :

gnome-panel-properties-capplet

That should bring up the panel part of the control-panel.

Otherwise, you can try this --> http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/users-guide/reset-session.html .

If that doesn't work you could attempt to edit your $HOME/.gnome/session file or just remove it - you'll end up with the default desktop again.

[expaul]

Hi blizz,

No luck with any of your suggestions either. There is no /home/paul/.gnome/session file...no rc file either...i've looked everywhere.

This kind of has be a bit upset. Ok, so i unchecked a box...now why in the heck am i not given the chance to re-check it? Perhaps this would be a good bug-report?

[expaul]

WOO eff - ing HOO ! ! !

I did it! I found the right file, and made the proper changes and right about now i'm damned proud of myself.

$HOME/.gconf/apps/nautilus/%gconf.xml

The icons are back on my desktop and i'm free to start putting shortuts there prety as i please.

Somewhere, i sense, there's a cosmic penguin smiling upon me. :rolleyes: