Disappearing desktop icons?

pat decampos decampos at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 13:13:21 UTC 2008


I've noticed if you logout, and log back in using failsafe gnome session it
works.

Funky stuff.

pd

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:01 AM, pat decampos <decampos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently running 8.04 and I just rebooted. All the icons I had on the
> > desktop I had are gone. I logged in like I normally did so its
> > definitely not a user issue. The icons can be replaced (they were just
> > multiple shares and drives) but this is still quite perplexing.
> >
> > Any insight?
> >
> > -pd
> >
> Me too!  I can't explain it. I've installed Ubuntu 8.04 on 3 machines,
> 2 for me, 1 for friend.
>
> On 1 of them, the icons do not appear on the desktop at log in time.
> However, if you insert a cd or access a drive, then the icons do
> appear for the devices that have been accessed.
>
> As far as I can tell, the users have nothing to do with it.
>
> pj
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