Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 12:58 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> 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.


In Preferences, there is an option named Main Menu. Open it and there
enable Configuration Editor.


Then run configuration editor in System tools, and go to
apps:nautilus:desktop.



This is the clean way to enable desktop icons.





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