Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. I have been searching and doing diffs to try and locate the problem, but no luck. Too many differences. Also, right-clicking on the desktop does not do anything now either. Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? TIA! Dennis Sounds like something is wrong with your user account. Have you tried creating a new user and logging into GNOME to check if everything is still working correctly? We need to pinpoint the problem before we can do anything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFnP0/o7Q/FCvPe0RAgC8AKCd/YaeNZfJjjeU/vHAkwqBpj1OHACfdPSH D97ENjle95d1xg7f/CaNvDI= =G6OE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
Dennis G. Wicks: I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. Are you using Gnome? Then it sounds like nautilus either isn't running or has been configured not to manage the desktop anymore. In the former case, just open a nautilus window and check whether your icons have returned. Otherwise, run gconf-editor and make sure that /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is checked. J. -- When you put a gun to my head you aren't fooling anyone. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, might help (press Alt+F2, then in the run application box, type nautilus). If this fails, then close the xserver down, and start it back up again, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then you can log back into gnome, and hopefully everything works. If this fails, then maybe shutting your computer off, getting a cup of coffee (or a beer), relaxing for a minute, and then turning your computer on will work. If nothing works, I do strongly feel that the coffee or beer (or both) will still help put some important perspective on the situation. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, might help (press Alt+F2, then in the run application box, type nautilus). If this fails, then close the xserver down, and start it back up again, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then you can log back into gnome, and hopefully everything works. If this fails, then maybe shutting your computer off, getting a cup of coffee (or a beer), relaxing for a minute, and then turning your computer on will work. If nothing works, I do strongly feel that the coffee or beer (or both) will still help put some important perspective on the situation. Both this suggestion _and_ the previous suggestion of running gconf-editor are important. You can turn off desktop icons in gconf-editor, and if you do so while there is no nautilus window open, some logic somewhere will shut down nautilus. Then if you immediately turn on desktop icons in gconf-editor, they will not reappear until you also restart nautilus. I learned from this thread how to turn _off_ icons. I am happy with a clutter free desktop ;-) -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do nautilus /H/hunters/public_html or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is checked. ... Wait!!! WTF Well, it is working now! I don't know just when it happened. Sometime in the course of composing this something triggered it. I just spotted an icon peeking out from behind a window! I knew somebody had the solution, it just didn't work the first time! I just wish I knew what it was that did it. In any event, thanks everybody for the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do nautilus /H/hunters/public_html or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is checked. ... Wait!!! WTF Well, it is working now! I don't know just when it happened. Sometime in the course of composing this something triggered it. I just spotted an icon peeking out from behind a window! I knew somebody had the solution, it just didn't work the first time! I just wish I knew what it was that did it. In any event, thanks everybody for the help! Dennis That's how good we are, fixing your stuff without even a SSH connection :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFwfS/o7Q/FCvPe0RAsi1AJ9oY0/SdG/6YlQuM0Z9cwiI3ruqgwCfap2N 8Uy5ob2KvsiqrbJVJSU/N5A= =scDe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 22:54 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do nautilus /H/hunters/public_html or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is checked. ... Wait!!! WTF Well, it is working now! I don't know just when it happened. Sometime in the course of composing this something triggered it. I just spotted an icon peeking out from behind a window! I knew somebody had the solution, it just didn't work the first time! I just wish I knew what it was that did it. In any event, thanks everybody for the help! That's how good we are, fixing your stuff without even a SSH connection :) When a machine hears I am coming along to look at it... it straightens up, or even the threat of calling me. At least that is what I've been told many times. I've been told that due to my visit and nothing is wrong. Sort of like your car, when you take it to the Mechanic, it ain't broken then. Sometimes a good stare works, other times its me picking up my screwdriver or sitting in front of it. There are other non-invasive techniques they seem to recognize. Mostly though, percussive maintenance is by and large not needed anymore, except on the monitors... when they start dropping a color channel. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Self mastery is the quality of a king. Be vigilant in your control over the self. If you cannot respond to your will, how can you expect others to respond? from The Way of Kings from Sanskrit Vedas translated by Drew Lawrence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
