Re: customizing the menu bar

2012-03-11 Thread Charles Krinke
Perhaps alt-right click Charles On Mar 11, 2012 12:38 PM, "abdelkader belahcene" wrote: > hi, > i tried the testing version wheezy, which runs gnome3. > i want to customize the menu bar by adding a button ( the arrow on left > or right on gnome2) to hide or show the bar. > > often i want to u

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
Thank you kindly, Selim, that is a good tip also. I think we can safely close this thread. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Charles Krinke,  3.03.2012: >> >> I do have a "gnome-panel" panel and I can manipulate it to some >

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
Thank you Cameleon, it is working now. I appreciate your advice in working through this. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:16:39 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote: > >> Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheez

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
12 at 1:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: > X>> > >>>   If you are running Gnome-classic, AND there are desktop files in >>> ~/Desktop, go into a terminal and run "nautilus -n". You then should have >>> deskto

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
would move smoothly with this mailing list. Perhaps the folks that change things like this in wheezy dont even read this list. Charles On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: > >> Thank you very much for working with me. I was

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
nal window again run "gconf-editor". look in the > /apps/nautilus/preferences key. Make sure "show_desktop" is checked. > exit gconf-editor. You should have icons on the desktop. > > If you don't have the gconf-editor in a root terminal run  "aptitude i

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
2 at 10:32 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/03/12 12:33 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: >> >> Dear Kai: >> >> I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the >> wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items >> defin

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Charles Krinke
and have worked in Linux for many years, but have not dug into the details of window managers as all my work is in developing embedded designs with ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, so I am a user of desktops but not a developer of desktops. Charles Krinke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?

2012-03-01 Thread Charles Krinke
On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from the kernel which would include any panic. So, one should be able to tail /var/log messages and see what the kernel did at the time of the freeze. Remembdr that the fresh boot is appendex to /var/log/messages, so you need to

Desktop icons missing

2012-03-01 Thread Charles Krinke
I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today. 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the icons from ~/Desktop/ now display properly, bu