Desktop icons disappeared

[Ben Steeves]

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.

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