[newbie] 'kill' on the desktop

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if you click on the kill icon and then on the desktop you lose all the icons 
and right click functionality on the desktop, i just know i'm going to do 
this more than once, when a prog.. oh lets be honest, when netscape freezes i 
never know if i have selcted kill properly or not so i do it a few times,

what is the command to run to get the full desktop back, i read elsewhere 
(here or expert) that the desktop is provided by a prog

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