Hi John, I had the same thing, getting an empty white/greyish screen when enabling to show icons on the desktop in shell 3.10 - Mageia.
For me it helped to set a background wallpaper instead of the default, it did not immediatley work out but after a few tries and a few login/logouts it showed the wallpaper and the icons. I suspect a bug somewhere but don't know where. -- (o_ //\ Regards, Groeten, V_/_ Bas Burger. On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 04:09:43 +0000 John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having > > >> > > > compiling the various components from source. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", > > >> > > > I do not get any application icons on the desktop nor > > >> > > > applet icons in the top panel. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > I can use nautilus to navigate > > >> > > > to /usr/local/share/applications and launch various gnome > > >> > > > apps by double-clicking on the *desktop files, so things > > >> > > > seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why there are > > >> > > > no application icons on the desktop. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, > > >> > > > but this does not change anything - any trouble-shooting > > >> > > > suggestions would be welcome. > > >> > > > > > > It might make it easier to troubleshoot if somebody could help me > > > out with > > the following: > > > > > > > Are you sure that it is failing to find the desktop files and > > doesn't just fail to render the app view? > > We use a GLSL effect there. If the shader fails to compile or your > > driver claims to not support GLSL we simply do not use it but maybe > > you are running a craptastic driver that compiles the shader and > > then renders nothing? > > > > Which video card and gpu driver are you using? > > I'm using intel hd3000 graphics with the > xf86-video-intel-2.21.15/MesaLib-9.2.2 drivers > > Note that if I type a letter (it doesn't seem to matter which letter) > into the search box at the top, I see the icons for "backgrounds", > "keyboard" and one other panel from gnome-control-center, but nothing > else - this would seem to indicate that the graphics side of things > is working? > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
