lost much of desktop after installing updates
Joel Bryan Juliano
joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 07:49:24 UTC 2007
On 8/12/07, Rob Lytle <fluffywhitecllouds at yahoo.com> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks, Rob
>
You need to reload your icon cache. You can try this method.
Somewhat there's a bug in the updates that doesn't do this.
<code>
for i in /usr/share/icons/*
do
gtk-update-icon-cache --force $i
done
</code>
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