On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:38:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:46:19 +0100 > David Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone > > > > I've just installed LM 8.1 and all was well for 24 hours apart from what I >consider to be the usual Mandrake network setup nightmare! (Much better in 8.1 - at >least it is no longer assumed that if you're on a LAN, that's how you want to connect >to the internet!) > > > > Anyway, my problem is desktop icons in Gnome: after installation, they were all >there - internet, control-centre, Mandrake this-and-that, etc. Then they suddenly >disappeared: on logging in, a blank desktop and no reaction from the right mouse >button. This has happened before, with LM 8.0 and Ximian gnome, but LM doesn't have a >"doorman-reset" facility as in Ximian, so just what has gone wrong and how can I fix >it? I'm running a laptop with a S3 Savage/MX display chip, Aureal Vortex au8810 >sound, Pentium 700, 128MB RAM and in general Linux runs fine, tho' I need a separate >sound driver. (Sound is fine in Gnome but nothing in KDE). > > > > I've tried reconfiguring XFree 4.1 but to no avail. Any suggestions? > > > > I am guessing that you had been using Nautilus and that it was drawing > your desktop. > At some point you must have exited the program or set it to Not draw and > manage the destop. > To correct this launch Nautilus, if your Icons reappear nothing else need > be done. > If not, select the Advance Setup buttom and then choose to have it draw > your desktop. > > If you choose to use GMC it will also draw the desktop and create icons > but be forwarned, there is a Gonome problem with GMC/Nautilus where other > than the drive icons, all icons create by GMC wiil not properly function. > This problem exist when 8.1 is done as a Clean install. > It is not present if you do an upgrade install. > > Charles (-: > > > Thank you - Nautilus wasn't drawing the desktop David -- David E Robertson FRCOG Director, Assisted Conception Unit The Esperance Hospital Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 3BG UK Tel/Fax +44 1323 410333 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web www.sussex-fertility.co.uk
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