On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:45:48PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:22:32AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Vreme: 11/15/2011 03:25 AM, fred smith piše:
note that the Desktop folder contains a subdirectory named "radio stations", and that its representation on the desktop looks correct. but when I click on it to open up that folder, all its contents are also broken in the same way.
Anybody got any clues?
First remove all spaces from folder(s) and desktop files.
Next, there was some trick when you create your own desktop files, I was receiving similar warning, but I am not sure (at the moment) what was the solution. While you change names, I will later on look for a solution.
Tried removing spaces. makes no difference.
did a reboot with forced fsck, on the off-chance that would fix something. no such luck.
created a whole new user, who CAN create working desktop launchers. which tells me it's something in my own login environment that's messing me up. Wonder what that might be....
Well, it's fixed. I know the solution, if not the cause: in my home directory, cd to .local/share/mime, delete (or rename) the "globs" file. log off, log on. voila.
I note that the globs file in that location is not the same size as the one in /usr/share/mime globs, which is also no the same size as the one in /usr/local/share/mime/globs. I have no CLUE how it gets generated (unless update-mime-database does it, but I don't know when or by what agency it gets run.) but after rebooting it has not been regenerated, but at least my desktop launchers now work. I note that /usr/share/mime/globs contains:
application/x-desktop:*.desktop
and that the globs file I renamed in ~/.local/share/mime does not contain such a line. without doing further spelunking, I can only guess that it is the absence of that line that broke my desktop.
Wonder how the file could have become broken/corrupted? is there a more correct method of "fixing" it?
thanks all!
Fred