On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 14:06, Andrew Robinson wrote: > Yesterday, my desktop icons disappeared. I think I was trying to abort a > slow-loading image in Mozilla, but I don't really know what I did. > Everything else seems to be working fine, just no desktop icons. Would > anyone have any suggestions on how I get them back? Assuming you're running GNOME... Check to see if nautilus crashed: $ ps auwx | grep nautilus ...if you don't see any tasks associated with Nautilus, it's probably gone, and your desktop with it (Nautilus is responsible for drawing the desktop icons). Logging in/out should fix it. Or you can start nautilus manually. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
