Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:22 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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.

in System Tools.




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