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.