Re: Desktop screwed up.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 12:56 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Aaron Konstam writes:
> 
> > Somehow I have screwed up my gnome desktop. I don't see the items in my
> > Desktop folder , I don't see my file folders for the computer of my home
> > folder , I have no Trash icon nor do I see mounted external devices.
> > 
> > Can someone tell me how to fix this situation in F11?
> > 
> > Finally I get nothing when I right click on thee desktop. How can I fix
> > that?
> 
> Sounds like Nautilus and/or Gnome is messed up. There could be endless 
> reasons for that. You could spend a week trying one thing or another, 
> randomly, to no effect.
> 
> It's probably easier just to nuke everything from high orbit, first, and 
> then recover. Rename your home directory, then create a new, empty, 
> directory in its place, taking care to use the same userid and groupid.
> 
> Once you log in you should then get the default, initial, Gnome desktop. 
> Then, you can manually move stuff over from your old home directory into 
> your new one, one at a time.
> 
I came to the same conclusion and did essentially what you suggested and
I am back with what I need. That is what I get for trying to use the
Configuration editor.