Desktop icons disappear in Gnome 2.6

[David L Norris]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 23:55 -0500, Travis Osterman wrote:
> Recently, I had a nautilus session that crashed and afterward I didn't
> have icons or the ability to right-click on my Gnome desktop.  I tried
> logging out and back into Gnome, nothing had changed.  Logging into
> KDE worked fine and showed the desktop.
> 
> I googled without getting anywhere and would appreciate any ideas to
> try.  Thanks for your time.

Logout of GNOME, login to a failsafe terminal, and run bonobo-slay.

You may also want to clean your user's files from /tmp and then kill all
processes running as your user ("kill -KILL -1" from your normal user
account, never as root).

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
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