What happened to my Desktop icons?

[peter kostov]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:15 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> try renaming the gnome directory under the user's home directory and
> then log out and log in again.
> This will reset the settings to default.
>  
> If this fixes the problem - you can alway go back to your data and
> change the desktop related files only.
>  
> And, you should *NEVER* login as root to GNOME - only su to it under a
> console inside of a user login.
>  
I didn't knew that, would you explain why I should *NEVER* login as root
to Gnome?

> Good Luck !
> Amichai
> 
>  
> On 11/12/05, fmiddleton at verizon.net <fmiddleton at verizon.net> wrote: 
>         For some strange reason, when I logon now, Gnome doesn't
>         display my desktop icons... it displays my Panels but not the
>         desktop icons. Also, nautilus just won't start when I try to
>         start it... 
>         
>         Everything's fine when I login as root... I wonder if this has
>         somethig to d0 with permissions set by SELinux or something?
>         
>         Ferindo
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