Desktop AWOL

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:21 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I run FC2 on one of the machines inside our firewall - I just like the
> look and feel of it :-)  Just ten minutes ago, the desktop icons and
> facilities disappeared mid-session.  The icons and files on the desktop
> vanished, right-click on the desktop doesn't bring up a menu and I'm
> stumped.  How do I get it back?  The ~/Desktop directory is still there
> with its contents, but isn't being displayed.
> 
> What on earth happened?

Possibly your window manager died. If you have an open xterm try
executing it again (kwm, metacity or whatever -- you don't say which
desktop you're using so it's hard to predict).

Note that FC2 has been unsupported for years.

poc