Elton, I really dunno if it's related, so take it as you will. (I think it was with Phoebe,) I had a problem where double-clicking Start Here or User's Home would produce a terminal window that shows what I assume the icon really is...something like a shortcut file. It seemed to happen in response to closing X with a ctrl-alt-backspace. (There weren't any frozen programs. I was just demonstrating. Then some folders stopped working.) I tried everything I could think of, including a very confusing message that came up about cache on the desktop or something like that. I ended up copying a good desktop from another computer. I had to change "Anna" to "User" everywhere, but it seemed to work okay after that. That's not the only weird thing that happened to those desktop icons in Phoebe after a ctrl-alt-backspace, so I finally learned to try killing stuff from another virtual terminal. :-p In Nautilus (at least in Psyche), it lists the Start Here folder as being in "start-here:///". That sure doesn't sound right. Would that mean it treats it like a protocol? Or is that something GNOME does? other file (and internet) browsers don't see it... Of course, your problem is different. You get the folder to open, but there's nothing in it. If it's truly a protocol, it probably had a stroke. Here's a fun experiment. Clicking on "Preferences" brings up preferences:///. See if that works. If it does, maybe it just misplaced some entries (or maybe you can circumvent the folder by creating new shortcuts to preferences:///). I'd also suggest trying to rename the .gnome-desktop file to see if it automatically creates a new one. If it does, and if Start Here works, then you'll have a good file to compare with. Any idea if it makes a new Start Here folder for new users? If so, maybe you can create a new user and either copy a file or migrate (migraine) some files over. > How do I recover the contents of the "Start Here" folder? I have the latest > updates from RHN, but I have NOT installed anything from rawhide... > My last logout, I admit was done by "CTRL-ALT-BKSP", but that shouldn't > be reason for me to lose the contents of the folder, should it? > > The only "exotic" changes that I have made to the system was to change > the "no menu-editing default-modules.conf". IIRC, this was a problem in > the Phoebe beta.... I thought this was fixed... > > Elton
