Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Are you using any 'exotic' fonts? Try switching the font settings in the GNOME Control Centre to something ordinary, like Helvetica or Times. If that doesn't do it, try the following. Edit /etc/gconf/1/path. This is what mine looks like. You should be able to just copy and paste this into your fi

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-19 Thread Charles A. Punch
I have had problems with Nautilus, so I used GMC for my desktop. I'm just curious about these error messages I get when I run nautilus from a terminal. Any ideas what kind of a can of worms I'm opening here? Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Object Activation Framework error: OAF problem descrip

Re: [newbie] gnome desktop icons after nautilusi

2001-09-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 17 Sep 2001 09:21:35 -0400, Paul Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After starting up Mandrake 8.0f2 in Gnome, I opened nautilus (from a > terminal), and deselected "Use Nautilus to draw the desktop". This than > made my screen blink for a second, and viola, handed control of the > desktop