On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 10:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I just received this from one of my users on Fedora Core 4/Gnome. > What would cause this to happen? > > My desktop keeps showing as just a blue screen with the tool bar at > the bottom. It was doing this the other day & I had to reboot the main > tower. Could you check it? Sounds like Nautilus got jammed up. I've had that once or twice, but not enough times to do a proper diagnosis. You could try killing the nautilus process, and see if that kicks things back into gear.