Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/02/2010 06:22 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 12:58 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
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>> On 02/05/10 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote:
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>>> On 02/05/10 12:04, Graham Watkins wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>>>
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>> Problem solved by means of rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
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>> This restored the basic settings.
>>
>> Still don't have a trash icon on my desktop though.
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> In Preferences, there is an option named Main Menu. Open it and there
> enable Configuration Editor.
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         I seem to have a different Main Menu than you have. I see no 
way to enable a Configuration Editor. How do you do that?

73 Karl




> Then run configuration editor in System tools, and go to
> apps:nautilus:desktop.
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> This is the clean way to enable desktop icons.
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