Gnome Desktop Wildness In 10.4 - solved

[Karl Larsen]

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:
>>
>>      
>>> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
>
>    
     My Trashcan is on the far right end of the bottom panel. Click and 
it comes up.


73 Karl


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