Well, I don't know what happened, but I did get it to work. I'll answer my own question in case anyone ever browses the archives. I refreshed all of the gnome rpms that had anything to do with mime info or icons. Restarted the X Server and for some reason it is now fine. It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm not arguing. --andy On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 10:41, Andy Choens wrote: > I've been trying to get things to straighten out with so success. > Everything seems to be working fine for root, but when I made a brand > new user, things didn't work there either. Start here has no icon and > there doesn't appear to be any mime-type info. > > Since it works for root, my thought is that it may have something to do > with permissions somewhere. Any ideas? > > --andy > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 00:54, Andy Choens wrote: > > I've just installed FCII. I'm coming over from SUSE to see what FC has > > been up to. Right now I've just got one little gripe, and I'm sure it > > can be easily corrected once I know where to go. > > > > I've got my directories all set up with the spatial nautilus and was > > actually quite pleased, and then I noticed that the icon for the start > > here desktop icon was missing. Then, I noticed that nautilus no longer > > recognizes such unusual filetypes such as rpm or .tgz. I tried to tell > > it, and it told me there was already a mime-type, did I want to > > overwrite? I said yes, and then tried to install an rpm, and nautilus > > then informed me that there was no set mime-type. > > > > My question is this. Where does GNOME keep all of it's mime-type / > > application icon information? I want to delete this file and see if > > GNOME can recover or copy these files from my root directory since it > > seems to be just fine. I just don't know what files to look at since > > I'm used to using KDE. > > > > I tried some things like .nautilus, and a few things under .gnome2. > > When I searched the archives I found nothing about randomly disapearing > > icons/mimetypes. > > > > Thanks > > andy > > >
