SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! My desktop contains icons for deleted files. How do I fix this?

[Peter Williams]

Hi Donn and All,

2008/8/12 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>

> Donn wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 12 August 2008 06:49:37 Peter Williams wrote:
> > > When I use Konquerer to explore the /home/user/Desktop folder I only
> > > see
> >
> > Try going to the View menu -> show hidden files. Perhaps they'll show
> > up. Hidden files are anything starting with a dot '.'
>
> Other than that, maybe it has something to do with the contents of the
> trash folder which is located in "/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/". But I
> have no idea why the icons then might still be on the desktop.
>

'Panic stations' over. I've fixed my problems: (a) with kconsole and screen
saver tab quitting (with error) & (b) with the icons on Desktop which I
could not delete.

This is going to sound a bit drastic -- but I accidentally uninstalled some
part of the KDE OS which it needed to bootup. I ended up getting to a TTY
login prompt. I phoned a friend who also uses Ubuntu and he told me to login
and use the 'startx' command which I did. I was the able to boot into Gnome
(I think). I then use the Synaptic Package Manager and installed KDE -- all
357 packages of it. Good thing my ADSL connection was still working without
any problems.

I selected KDE as my default and I then rebooted and KDE 4.0 started fine.

The problems with the icons was that I needed to 'unlock' one of the icon
then right-mouse-click to select remove icon. That worked for removal of all
the unwanted icons.

Best Wishes and Happy Computing
PEW   ;-)))


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