Gnome 2.6 and Slackware 10: Desktop icons disappeared and background has to be reset

towarzysz · 07-26-2004, 01:03 AM

I'm having a small problem with gnome 2.6.whatever that came with Slackware 10.0. Everything worked fine for a couple days after installation, but the other day I booted up my laptop and started gnome and the desktop icons and the background image failed to display, instead, I saw the default X background. Furthermore, my menu that pops up when right-clicking on the desktop no longer shows up. My taskbars and windows seem to work just fine though. Can anyone help me out with this one?

gbonvehi · 07-26-2004, 01:28 AM

Did you update something? Try moving your gnome config files to a temporary directory and start with a fresh gnome config to see if it's some corrupted file.

Andronik · 07-26-2004, 07:03 AM

did you something with swaret?
if you did upgrade ,do swaret with --dep (dependency checks)
(upgrade from previous gnomes do not install some needed packages).

Tuttle · 07-26-2004, 07:46 AM

set the background colour in gconf editor, that should fix it.

edit: in "applications>system tools>configuration editor" then /apps/nautillus/preferences. ie. the "show_desktop" is connected to "background_color"

alpineedge3 · 07-18-2005, 06:42 PM

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Try moving your gnome config files to a temporary directory and start with a fresh gnome config to see if it's some corrupted file.

i'm having the same problem. that seems to be the answer everywhere, but I don't know where my gnome files are! this should be an easy one....thanks

Tuttle · 07-20-2005, 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by alpineedge3
i'm having the same problem. that seems to be the answer everywhere, but I don't know where my gnome files are! this should be an easy one....thanks

Your gnome files are in /home/username/.gnome/ and /home/username/.gnome2/.
All your personal preferences are in "hidden" files; that is to say, anything beginning with a dot in your home folder.