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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.
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.
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.
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
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