Desktop behavior

[Melanie]

On Thursday 08 Jun 2006 10:49, Paul Kaplan wrote:
" On Thursday 08 June 2006 05:27, Paul Kaplan wrote:
" > On Thursday 08 June 2006 01:02, Tez wrote:
" > > Paul Kaplan wrote:
" > > > On a newly installed kubuntu, I have no icons on the desktop.  Saving
" > > > files to ~/Desktop doesn't add any icons.
" > > > What gives?  How does one get the icons to show?
" > > > TIA
" > > > Paul
" > >
" > > Try right-clicking on the desktop, click on "Configure Desktop"
" > > go to the "Behaviour" section and put a check in the box saying "Show
" > > icons on desktop"
" > > Then you should see the icons.
" > >
" > > Tez
" >
" > It's been checked all along...still no icons.
" > P
" ...but suddenly this morning it worked...go figure?!?
"

Curious.  I have been aware of intermittent desktop icon behaviour for some 
time with Mandriva, sometimes they appear, sometimes they don't.  Go figure.

Melanie