Lost Desktop Icons in F11

[Steven F. LeBrun]

On 07/25/2009 08:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 07/26/2009 03:51 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
>    
>> When upgrading from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 failed, I did a clean install
>> of Fedora 11 and restored my personal home directory including the
>> subdirectory .gconf from Fedora 10.  I use Gnome for my desktop environment.
>>      
>
> Add another user and see if the icons are getting displayed there
> properly. If that works, then your current user gconf settings are
> somehow screwed up.
>
> Rahul
>
>    

Good news and bad news, the good news is that when I created a new user, 
the desktop icons appeared as expected and therefore the problem is in 
my gnome and/or nautilus settings; the bad news is that the problem is 
somwhere in my account settings.

The problem is not with .gconf by itself.  I have renamed the directory 
and rebooting did not bring back my desktop icons.  Therefore, the 
problem should be in another set of configuration, probably in another 
gnome hidden directory.  Hopefully, the problem is in a single hidden 
directory and not a combination of hidden directories.

Is there any documentation that would help me understand the Gnome 
configuration and hidden directories?

Note that the gtweakui-nautilus shows that nautilus is configured to 
handle the desktop display when I log in.  Toggling that setting to off 
and back to on restores the desktop icons.


-- 
   Steven F. LeBrun

Quote: /"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there 
are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy 
stories tell children that dragons can be killed."/
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