I accidentally deleted ~/Desktop on a Fedora Core 3 machine. (Specifically, I fumble-fingered something like 'rm -rf foo *' in my home directory when I meant to type 'rm -rf foo/*'. Very scary, but thankfully it was on a machine I use for experimentation.) Immediately after the deletion I noticed the "factory-supplied" icons that were on my desktop (Computer, Home, and Trash; I hadn't added anything else) had disappeared. That did not surprise me initially, but then I logged on as another user and noted that ~/Desktop is empty even when those factory icons are visible. I created a new ~/Desktop, then tried logging out and even rebooting, but my desktop is still empty. Furthermore, clicking and dragging on the desktop fails to produce a selection rectangle, and right-clicking fails to bring up a context menu. How can I repair this? Out of curiosity, what entity creates ~/Desktop during the installation process? Thanks much, Todd Thomas _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
