On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > > some launchers I had set up are gone. > > > Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? > > Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, > might help (press Alt+F2, then in the run application box, type > nautilus). If this fails, then close the xserver down, and start it > back up again, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then you can log > back into gnome, and hopefully everything works. If this fails, then > maybe shutting your computer off, getting a cup of coffee (or a beer), > relaxing for a minute, and then turning your computer on will work. > > If nothing works, I do strongly feel that the coffee or beer (or both) > will still help put some important perspective on the situation. >
Both this suggestion _and_ the previous suggestion of running gconf-editor are important. You can turn off desktop icons in gconf-editor, and if you do so while there is no nautilus window open, some logic somewhere will shut down nautilus. Then if you immediately turn on desktop icons in gconf-editor, they will not reappear until you also restart nautilus. I learned from this thread how to turn _off_ icons. I am happy with a clutter free desktop ;-) -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
