lost much of desktop after installing updates
Brian Fahrlander
brian at fahrlander.net
Sun Aug 12 14:17:45 UTC 2007
Rob Lytle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list, but not Ubuntu. I did a fresh install of 7.04 last
> night on this now Windowsless computer (yay!). When I was finished and
> rebooted the screen looked normal with hard drive icons. I seem to
> remember the dock having what looked like the usual icons.
Hard drive icons? I only have one of'em, I had to edit /etc/fstab
to get it. (It's my backup disk). Normally they won't come up, unless
it's a disk in a DVD or something. Is _that_ not happening?
> Then I was notified that there were 111 updates. So I installed them.
> Now my Gnome screen is totally iconless and the doc looks like its
> missing icons. What happened?
Yeah, there's been a good bit of development in Feisty since the
original CDs were burnt/put-into-isos. It's normal for a healthy, living
distro....especially the development versions of the product. Dapper has
very, very few these days; it's the long-term product.
Gnome (at least under Ubuntu- Fedora seemed to put a lot of'em on
there) has no icons, by default. It's accessed by "Places" when you need
it. It's intended to keep the desktop clean, and it's probably a good
idea, since it leaves all that up to you, and your choices. But it
sounds like the upgrade killed the icons you put there.
If worst comes to worst, you can always rm -rf .gnome* and
reboot/log-out: that'll start you off with a 'factory' set of desktop
goodies. That's been part of Gnome for a long time, and is kinda
comforting...
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