Desktop program links opening as text?

[NurseGirl]

This definitely sounds like a configuration error. 7.10 and 8.04 use
some different configuration conventions. If you're rolling back 8.04
configuration files (i.e., those hidden files in your home directory)
into 7.10, I'm sure that's caused the problem.

Daniel's solution of creating a new user and moving over data files
but not configuration files is the safest one. Make sure you don't
erase the old users until everything's working, though!

If you do want to poke around and see if you can figure it out, you
probably want to check out ~/.local/share/mime but I'd definitely back
up everything before you start playing around in there.

Hope this helps!
Nursegirl



On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's a fresh 7.10 OS install - I had to reformat the drive and I
>> repartitioned it as well. But the home directories are saved from the
>> previous 7.10 install.
>> ...
>> When I login as Root user, I just noticed....the problem doesn't occur. The
>> Root account is on the same partition as the OS. Is this an important clue?
>
> have you tried  a different account, not root or yourself, but another
> normal user one?
>
> Usually these type of problems are on a per-user basis, and the root
> cause is problably somewhere in gnome config files in the user account
> in his/her home directory. (the config files are in directories like
> .gnome, .gnome2, etcin your home directory).
>
> If a different account on your system doesn't have the problem, then
> it is a strong hint that the problem is in your specific user home
> directory, and not some sort of system-wide bug, or mysterious problem
> a reinstall could solve.  If that's the case you can try to spend a
> lot of time to track it down, and personally I don't even know where
> to start to do that,  or you can start fresh with a totally new
> account or new home directory for your account.
>
>> You mentioned Nautilus? Is Nautilus responsible for the desktop behaviour? If so,
>> is there a way to force Nautilus to remedy itself?
>>
>> (in the old Macintosh days when something didn't work right on the desktop you
>>  just forced the Mac to rebuild the invisible desktop database, something you could
>> do with a certain key sequence. Does something like this exist with Linux as well?)
>
> that option doesn't exist, to my best knowledge, in either Linux, or OSX.
>
> In the past, when I had problems with gnome, especially when migrating
> between Linux version, I would clean up my home directory by starting
> with a default one, and them moving my normal files/diredctory back
> into that fresh home directory.  Yes there is a downside: all my
> personalizations were lost, but I found that was easier to deal with
> than having a half-broken configuration.
>
>
>
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