On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:45 -0400, Adam Stokes wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:40:41 -0500 > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 12:56 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > Aaron Konstam writes: > > > > > > > Somehow I have screwed up my gnome desktop. I don't see the items > > > > in my Desktop folder , I don't see my file folders for the > > > > computer of my home folder , I have no Trash icon nor do I see > > > > mounted external devices. > > > > > > > > Can someone tell me how to fix this situation in F11? > > > > > > > > Finally I get nothing when I right click on thee desktop. How can > > > > I fix that? > > > > > > Sounds like Nautilus and/or Gnome is messed up. There could be > > > endless reasons for that. You could spend a week trying one thing > > > or another, randomly, to no effect. > > > > > > It's probably easier just to nuke everything from high orbit, > > > first, and then recover. Rename your home directory, then create a > > > new, empty, directory in its place, taking care to use the same > > > userid and groupid. > > > > > > Once you log in you should then get the default, initial, Gnome > > > desktop. Then, you can manually move stuff over from your old home > > > directory into your new one, one at a time. > > > > > I came to the same conclusion and did essentially what you suggested > > and I am back with what I need. That is what I get for trying to use > > the Configuration editor. > > > > fwiw, next time just check to see if nautilus is even running. and if > its not enable it through your terminal and make sure its in your list > of startup applications in 'preferences' -> 'sessions startup' > nautilus is running but it does not appear in preferences -> systems startup (as far as I can see) The problem really was my fooling around with the nautilus options using the Configuration editor. In particular unclicking: /apps->nautilus-> preferences show_desktop -- ======================================================================= Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. -- Garrison Keillor ======================================================================= 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
