Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Graham Watkins]

On 02/05/10 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote:
> On 02/05/10 12:04, Graham Watkins wrote:
>    
>> I opened gconf-editor to make my trash icon visible and I think I must
>> have clicked on something by mistake because a semmingly infinite number
>> of instances of file manager began to open on the panel and all my
>> desktop icons vanished.   I cannot create new ones any more by dragging
>> and dropping from the menu. Also the right click options on the desktop
>> have disappeared.
>>
>> What have I done wrong and how can I put it right?
>>
>>
>>      
> What's more, for all these file manager buttons appearing on the file
> manager, I can't get any file manager windows to open.
>
> Is there a way I can re-install the desktop without trashing the rest of
> my installation?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
>
>    
Problem solved by means of rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

This restored the basic settings.

Still don't have a trash icon on my desktop though.

Cheers,

Graham