MDK 9.1: desktop icons gone
 

I have seen similar posts about this, but no solution that seems to apply.

I have Mandrake 9.1 with the gnome desktop. I found when I rebooted the other day that ALL my desktop icons (folders, <username> home, trash, CD ROM, etc) have disappeared.

I can run everything via the gnome menu, etc.

All the folders and elements appear in ~/.gnome-desktop.

I have seen some answers that say I should run gnome midnight commander (gmc). But I don't have that.

I have seen several other answers that say to change something in Nautilus, Preferences, Desktop Preferences. The *small* problem is that I can't find that element when I launch Nautilus. The Edit-Preferences screen is conspicuously limited.

Thank in advance. I have the sneaking suspicion this isn't hard.

Leon

I've seen this too
 

When it does this to me I just logout and back in. They are there when it comes up. I use KDE so it may not be the windows that is messing up here. Makes me wonder. :scratch:

Hope it comes back.

:D :D :D

Nope, I've done several reboots and also started the other desktops (KDE and Icewin) - while the other two desktops have icons, Gnome still is painfully, depressingly empty.

There's gotta be a trick to this!
Leon

Maybe check the permissions of that ~/.gnome-desktop?

SOLVED!!

So simple, so elegant, so obvious.

I just ran "nautilus" in a terminal and along with a file browser came all of my icons.

From there, I re-arranged everything and then logged out, making sure to check "save current setup".

Sheesh. You'd that someone would have put THAT in a FAQ somewhere.

Thanks to everyone who offered ideas

Leon

Ah, seems like someone may have told you to run nautilus --no-desktop to speed things up, but if you're using GNOME you probably want it to deal with your desktop :)

I don't ever recall running that command on purpose, but it could have happened in a script somewhere. I'm just glad to have everything back!

Leon