Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Graham Watkins]

On 02/05/10 17:29, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 05:58 AM, Graham Watkins wrote:
>    
>> On 02/05/10 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> 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
>>
>>
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>       My Trashcan is on the far right end of the bottom panel. Click and
> it comes up.
>
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>    
Yep, but I wanted it on the desktop.

I've got it now.  Although I couldn't see it in the main menu  item 
Ioannis suggested so I used command line again.

Cheers,

Graham