Hi,try renaming .gnome .gnome2 .gnome_private .gnome2_private to *.old and then trying to startx again. All your ICON's and things should be like as a first time user. If you can login successfully now, you can copy needed stuff from the old files into the newly created ones. I usually delete the damaged directories and start clean.
My system locked up today and upon restart, nautilus no longer works. I see no desktop icons at all, and I can't bring up the right-click menu
on my desktop. Changing the desktop background via preferences has no
effect, and "Browse Filesystem" does nothing.. even though the nautilus
process is running..
But this is only a problem on the user account which was logged in when the crash took place. When logging into GNOME as root, everything functions properly.
Is there a way I can restore whatever got trashed??
Thanks- Ben
clearing out the /tmp directory of maybe corrupted files might work to clean things up also. Remove directories marked as directory-user from /tmp and try logging in again. If you remove directories and files from /tmp you might need to restart your computer for things to get back to normal.
For you not to be able to right click on the destop to launch anything, it sounds like you really have a messed up gnome settings.
Also, the archives might be of help for locating a solution.
Jim
