Fedora Users — Re: Lost Desktop Icons in F11

On 07/25/2009 08:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

On 07/26/2009 03:51 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:

When upgrading from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 failed, I did a clean install
of Fedora 11 and restored my personal home directory including the
subdirectory .gconf from Fedora 10.  I use Gnome for my desktop environment.

Add another user and see if the icons are getting displayed there
properly. If that works, then your current user gconf settings are
somehow screwed up.

Rahul

Good news and bad news, the good news is that when I created a new user, the desktop icons appeared as expected and therefore the problem is in my gnome and/or nautilus settings; the bad news is that the problem is somwhere in my account settings.

The problem is not with .gconf by itself. I have renamed the directory and rebooting did not bring back my desktop icons. Therefore, the problem should be in another set of configuration, probably in another gnome hidden directory. Hopefully, the problem is in a single hidden directory and not a combination of hidden directories.

Is there any documentation that would help me understand the Gnome configuration and hidden directories?

Note that the gtweakui-nautilus shows that nautilus is configured to handle the desktop display when I log in. Toggling that setting to off and back to on restores the desktop icons.

Steven F. LeBrun

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-- G.K. Chesterton

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