On 07/26/2009 10:30 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
On 07/25/2009 08:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 07/26/2009 03:51 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
When upgrading from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 failed, I did a clean install
of Fedora 11 and restored my personal home directory including the
subdirectory .gconf from Fedora 10. I use Gnome for my desktop environment.
Add another user and see if the icons are getting displayed there
properly. If that works, then your current user gconf settings are
somehow screwed up.
Rahul
Good news and bad news, the good news is that when I created a new
user, the desktop icons appeared as expected and therefore the problem
is in my gnome and/or nautilus settings; the bad news is that the
problem is somwhere in my account settings.
The problem is not with .gconf by itself. I have renamed the directory
and rebooting did not bring back my desktop icons. Therefore, the
problem should be in another set of configuration, probably in another
gnome hidden directory. Hopefully, the problem is in a single hidden
directory and not a combination of hidden directories.
Is there any documentation that would help me understand the Gnome
configuration and hidden directories?
Note that the gtweakui-nautilus shows that nautilus is configured to
handle the desktop display when I log in. Toggling that setting to off
and back to on restores the desktop icons.
--
Steven F. LeBrun
Quote: "The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children
there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons.
Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."
-- G.K. Chesterton
After obtaining a list of the hidden directories used by gnome, I was
able to rename existing directories, log out, log back in and see if
the desktop icons were displayed. Through a series of trials and
errors, the problem was in my old ~/.local/share/applications
directory. My old version contained 395 entries and the new one
contained 2.
What is not solved is exactly which of the 394 files is the problem.
Almost all the files in the broken directory are desktop configuration
files along with a couple of list (text) files. I did copy the wine
subdirectory from my broken applications directory to the working one
without a problem while resolving missing wine applications that were
installed.
--
Steven F. LeBrun
Quote:
"There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand
binary and those who don't."
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