disappearing desktop

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, NoOp wrote:

> On 07/04/2009 11:31 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> Running Hardy with the latest updates. I had the terminal launcher and a
>> number of documents on the desktop. When I booted just now the desktop
>> was blank. Just the wallpaper. The launcher and docs are still in the
>> ~/Desktop directory. Also, right clicking on the desktop fails to bring
>> up the create doc popup. Rebooting doesn't help. The only change was to
>> run the update manager this morning. It showed some backport updates
>> that I went ahead and installed. I would try backing them off if I knew
>> how and could remember what they were.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>
> System|Administration|Synaptic...|File|History

The packages involved were related to Pidgin. Since I never use it I 
purged the app and rebooted. No joy. No icons. Still a blank desktop 
with only the wallpaper. My knotes stickies are still there, however. 
Also I forgot to mention dragging icons from the drop down menu to the 
desktop doesn't work anymore.

Any other ideas other than reinstalling from the backup I ran yesterday?

Thanks.

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