gang, I feel dumb having to ask this...
I've got a Centos 5.5 installation (it's not new, I've been using it for over a year on this machine) and all of a sudden just a few minutes ago everything on the gnome desktop disappeared. no icons, right-click doesn't bring up a context menu. the panels are still there, though, thank goodness.
tried logging off and back on but that didn't help. I'm perusing the centos forums for clues, and thought I should ask all of you too in parallel.
Suggestions appreciated, thanks in advance!
Fred
fred smith пишет:
gang, I feel dumb having to ask this...
I've got a Centos 5.5 installation (it's not new, I've been using it for over a year on this machine) and all of a sudden just a few minutes ago everything on the gnome desktop disappeared. no icons, right-click doesn't bring up a context menu. the panels are still there, though, thank goodness.
tried logging off and back on but that didn't help. I'm perusing the centos forums for clues, and thought I should ask all of you too in parallel.
Suggestions appreciated, thanks in advance!
Fred
Check the result of
$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/nautilus/preferences | grep show_desktop
and, if it give you "show_desktop = false", turn the show_desktop on:
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool true
this should give your desktop with icons and context menus back.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:11:09AM +0600, Sergey Podushkin wrote:
fred smith пишет:
gang, I feel dumb having to ask this...
I've got a Centos 5.5 installation (it's not new, I've been using it for over a year on this machine) and all of a sudden just a few minutes ago everything on the gnome desktop disappeared. no icons, right-click doesn't bring up a context menu. the panels are still there, though, thank goodness.
tried logging off and back on but that didn't help. I'm perusing the centos forums for clues, and thought I should ask all of you too in parallel.
Suggestions appreciated, thanks in advance!
Fred
Check the result of
$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/nautilus/preferences | grep show_desktop
and, if it give you "show_desktop = false", turn the show_desktop on:
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool true
this should give your desktop with icons and context menus back.
Sergey:
Thanks for the info!
After attempting a log off/on as described above, and not finding much online, I logged off again, logged on as another user and found the desktop looked normal, so I logged off and on again as 'me' and voila, it was all back!
No clue what happened, but I'm glad it's "fixed".
thanks again!
Fred
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