On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 17:00 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 29 September 2008 15:21, Jonathan Allen wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I run FC2 on one of the machines inside our firewall - I just like the > > look and feel of it :-) Just ten minutes ago, the desktop icons and > > facilities disappeared mid-session. The icons and files on the desktop > > vanished, right-click on the desktop doesn't bring up a menu and I'm > > stumped. How do I get it back? The ~/Desktop directory is still there > > with its contents, but isn't being displayed. > > > > What on earth happened? > > > > Jonathan > > Hi Jonathan. As a fellow FC2 user, are you using Gnome, or KDE. I use KDE, and > do remember losing all the icons once before, but can't remember the fix. > > I don't use Gnome, but I found something on Google, where someone had messed > with Nautilus, which apparently is responsible for drawing icons, background, > and the right click to get the menu. Perhaps Nautilus crashed, and is why you > lost all the icons, etc. > > Have you tried logging out, and backin. > > Perhaps try creating a new user, and see if you get the default icons for the > new user. > > If you're using KDE like me, I'll try and find out what the fix was. > > Nigel. > > btw. We need to start an FC2 users club. A bit like the Morris Minor club, but > for ancient distros that still work well. > I don't knpow if tis is true in FC2 but in F9 you look in: .gconf/apps/nautilus/ and the contents of the directories therein. -- ======================================================================= Gomme's Laws: (1) A backscratcher will always find new itches. (2) Time accelerates. (3) The weather at home improves as soon as you go away. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
