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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
