Desktop icons disappeared

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Fri Mar 12 18:33:33 UTC 2004


Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 14:06, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 
>>Yesterday, my desktop icons disappeared. I think I was trying to abort a 
>>slow-loading image in Mozilla, but I don't really know what I did. 
>>Everything else seems to be working fine, just no desktop icons. Would 
>>anyone have any suggestions on how I get them back?
> 
> 
> Assuming you're running GNOME...
> 
> Check to see if nautilus crashed:
> 
> $ ps auwx | grep nautilus
> 
> ...if you don't see any tasks associated with Nautilus, it's probably
> gone, and your desktop with it (Nautilus is responsible for drawing the
> desktop icons).  Logging in/out should fix it.  Or you can start
> nautilus manually.
> 

The ps | grep command gives me this:

$ ps -ef | grep -i nautilus
andrew    8522     1  0 Mar11 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
--sm-client-id default3
andrew    8803     1  0 Mar11 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
--sm-client-id default3
andrew   12807     1  0 10:49 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
--sm-client-id default3
andrew   13184 13147  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i nautilus

And I forgot to mention that I had logged out and back in. Any more 
suggestions?

Thanks!

Andrew






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