Re: What happened to my Desktop icons?

From: peter kostov (fedora_at_light-bg.com)
Date: 11/13/05

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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:07:28 +0200

    On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:15 +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
    > try renaming the gnome directory under the user's home directory and
    > then log out and log in again.
    > This will reset the settings to default.
    >
    > If this fixes the problem - you can alway go back to your data and
    > change the desktop related files only.
    >
    > And, you should *NEVER* login as root to GNOME - only su to it under a
    > console inside of a user login.
    >
    I didn't knew that, would you explain why I should *NEVER* login as root
    to Gnome?

    > Good Luck !
    > Amichai
    >
    >
    > On 11/12/05, fmiddleton@verizon.net <fmiddleton@verizon.net> wrote:
    > For some strange reason, when I logon now, Gnome doesn't
    > display my desktop icons... it displays my Panels but not the
    > desktop icons. Also, nautilus just won't start when I try to
    > start it...
    >
    > Everything's fine when I login as root... I wonder if this has
    > somethig to d0 with permissions set by SELinux or something?
    >
    > Ferindo
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