Desktop icons disappeared

[Andrew Robinson]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> The ps | grep command gives me this:
> 
> $ ps -ef | grep -i nautilus
> andrew    8522     1  0 Mar11 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
> --sm-client-id default3
> andrew    8803     1  0 Mar11 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
> --sm-client-id default3
> andrew   12807     1  0 10:49 ?  00:00:00 nautilus --no-default-window 
> --sm-client-id default3
> andrew   13184 13147  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep -i nautilus
> 
> And I forgot to mention that I had logged out and back in. Any more 
> suggestions?
> 

Nevermind. I rebooted and the icons returned. That doesn't answer why 
they disappeared, but it's now a moot point.

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson