----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: ""Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem
> On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:03 am, Netsonic wrote: > > > Hi everybody. > > > > I have downloaded and tried to install Mandrake 9.1. The install itself > > runs OK, but when I load up KDE, there are no desktop icons whatsoever. > > > > All the previous Mandrake versions I used had a handful of icons there for > > things like 'Home', 'CD Rom' etc in the top left hand corner of the screen. > > > > Also when the KDE loads, the mouse pointer changes to an egg-timer type > > pointer as if its waiting for something to finish. It stays like this for 5 > > or 6 minutes, and then still no desktop icons. > > > > The menus and taskbar are available and work OK. > > > > Right clicking somewhere in the middle of the desktop does nothing, whereas > > there used to be a context menu appeared for things like desktop > > configuration. > > > > Gnome loads with the icons OK, just nothing for KDE. > > > > Has anybody else experienced this ?? > > Yes, I experienced this the first time I installed 9.1 > > In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was > running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and > then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to > a user desktop :-) > > -- > Martin Foster > FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 > http://befido.webhop.org > > > Thanks, I will certainly give that a try later. I find it hard to believe, when all the other versions gave me the same set of icons on the root desktop though. Incidentally, Im downloading the ISOs again as I also suspect it may be a corrupted disc, though unfortunately I have no way of knowing which one. Oh well! Stevo
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