Lost desktop icons in gnome after uprade

kmoffat · 12-22-2006, 05:31 AM

Yesterday I did a dist-upgrade on one of my etch boxes and now my desktop icons are gone; my Computer, Home, Downloads, and Trash. Anyone know how to restore these? (The other etch box is fine.)

radiodee1 · 12-22-2006, 06:50 AM

Do you mean the'yre gone, like missing, or that they have the wrong icon on them?

kmoffat · 12-22-2006, 05:10 PM

Gone, like missing. No desktop icons.

Edit: for some reason nautilus was not starting after upgrade.

LeeHA · 01-03-2007, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kmoffat

Gone, like missing. No desktop icons.

Edit: for some reason nautilus was not starting after upgrade.

This could be my problem also, how did you fix it?

kmoffat · 01-03-2007, 04:13 PM

ran nautilus from an xterm

nautilus &

then logged out and back in. Gnome saved the session which now starts nautilus automatically.

LeeHA · 01-03-2007, 05:18 PM

Arr ya, thanks. that did seem to work, I'll keep an eye on it, wonder why it failed though, that's a bit worrying

kmoffat · 01-03-2007, 05:25 PM

I wondered about that, but it's been fine for quite a while, through several upgrades.