Re: lost much of desktop after installing updates
- From: James Takac <p3nndrag0n@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:47:33 +1000
On Monday 13 August 2007 00:40:55 Rob Lytle wrote:
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From: Brian Fahrlander <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:17:45 AM
Subject: Re: lost much of desktop after installing updates
Rob Lytle wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to the list, but not Ubuntu. I did a fresh install of 7.04 last
night on this now Windowsless computer (yay!). When I was finished and
rebooted the screen looked normal with hard drive icons. I seem to
remember the dock having what looked like the usual icons.
Hard drive icons? I only have one of'em, I had to edit /etc/fstab
to get it. (It's my backup disk). Normally they won't come up, unless
it's a disk in a DVD or something. Is _that_ not happening?
Then I was notified that there were 111 updates. So I installed them.
Now my Gnome screen is totally iconless and the doc looks like its
missing icons. What happened?
Yeah, there's been a good bit of development in Feisty since the
original CDs were burnt/put-into-isos. It's normal for a healthy, living
distro....especially the development versions of the product. Dapper has
very, very few these days; it's the long-term product.
Gnome (at least under Ubuntu- Fedora seemed to put a lot of'em on
there) has no icons, by default. It's accessed by "Places" when you need
it. It's intended to keep the desktop clean, and it's probably a good
idea, since it leaves all that up to you, and your choices. But it
sounds like the upgrade killed the icons you put there.
If worst comes to worst, you can always rm -rf .gnome* and
reboot/log-out: that'll start you off with a 'factory' set of desktop
goodies. That's been part of Gnome for a long time, and is kinda
comforting...
Hi Rob
That icon on your dock would be at the left of what you'd remember as a system
tray. Basically you'll have something like pwer button, clock, speaker,
network,...... maybe what looks like a single dot, big space a few icons, and
finally your system, places, and applications menus. That single dot on the
left of the tray area should be what is being referered to. It marks the
boundary of the tray area basically to my knowledge
James
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