On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:58 -0500, Michael Velez wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:18, Michael Velez wrote: > > > I guess I corrupted the desktop when I rebooted through VNC > > but I don't know > > > how to get it back. > > > > > > Is there a way of retrieving this without having to delete > > this user and > > > creating a new one? > > > > Guessing sucks. Always try to figure out what's going on! > > Leaving this unknown > > can only lead to trouble down the road - it's always better > > to spend some > > time and find out whassup. You'll find out something bad has > > happened, or > > you'll learn how to better identify if something bad is > > happening later. > > Either way, you're ahead! > > > > Different WM have different locations for Desktop. KDE's > > desktop is usually in > > ~/Desktop. Check out that folder. > > > > If you really think corruption is in order, you might want to > > check your > > entire f/s with e2fsck: > > > > # shutdown -Fr now; > > > > Otherwise, you might have to recover from backups. (you DO > > have backups, > > right?) > > > > Actually, when I meant I corrupted the desktop, I didn't mean at a disk > level. I doubt e2fsck will fix this (although I'll run it anyway, you never > know). The reboot was proper; however, it was done through VNC which seems > to have caused a different chain of events when closing the gnome-session. > This is what I'm trying to figure out. > > As I mentioned in my previous e-mail all my *.desktop files are in my > ~/Desktop directory. They just do not appear on the desktop when I open my > gnome session. The session starts everything else (start menus, taskbar, > startup applications - i.e. xclock) it's just my desktop that has become one > solid color (dark blue) with no icons. I can log in fine with other > userid's and receive a good desktop, so this really has something to do with > my user profile. > > At this point, I'm trying to figure out how a reboot through VNC could have > made my gnome-session close improperly. > > I don't know enough about gnome-sessions to figure this out myself. Is > there a file in the gnome profile that has desktop information (other than > ~/Desktop)? > > I've had to use VNC a lot lately so I have seen this once before. I > couldn't figure it out and I just deleted the user, created a new one, and > re-installed user files from backup (which I have a wazoo of; I have more > automated backup than a home environment actually needs). My next e2fsck > after that did not mention a corruption so it really has to be something in > my profile files. ---- ~/Desktop is the objects on your desktop (files / folders / etc.) your settings are typically stored in ~/.gnome or ~/.gnome2 or ~/.gconf try moving them... mv .gnome .gnome-bak one at a time and then log in again and see what works. Moving them rather than deleting them allows you to recover settings that you might want to keep Craig