Re: [Dapper] How to get mounted disk show on the desktop



On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:03 +0100, Guido Heumann wrote:
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 19:20 schrieb Vincent Trouilliez:
[...]
In my experience, it won't take effect immediately though,
even restarting Nautilus wasn't enough, even logging out wasn't enough,
I had to reboot the machine, somehow.

Hi Vince,

a little hint for future experiments with GNOME configuration settings:
there's at least one more thing you can do before rebooting, if logging out
doesn't help: restarting GDM. From the login screen, switch to the console
with ctrl-alt-F1 and then sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart.

Just in case you didn't know. In my experience this sometimes saves me a
desperate reboot.

Yeah I could have tried restarting X, but back then I also had a kernel
update in the pipeline, so since I HAD to reboot anyway, I didn't try
too hard avoiding to...
But I was very surprised that logging out was not enough. I thought that
Nautilus/Gnome being at user lever, logging out should re-initialize
each and every component of Gnome. I would not mind an explanation here,
I feel this would give me a little more knowledge of my Penguin...

--
Vince


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