Ben Steeves wrote:
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.
The ps | grep command gives me this:
$ ps -ef | grep -i nautilus
andrew 8522 1 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
andrew 8803 1 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
andrew 12807 1 0 10:49 ? 00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
andrew 13184 13147 0 12:29 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i nautilus
And I forgot to mention that I had logged out and back in. Any more suggestions?
Nevermind. I rebooted and the icons returned. That doesn't answer why they disappeared, but it's now a moot point.
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
