The desktop once again

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Jul 16 03:48:57 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 10:13 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
wrote:
> Guys, I know we've been through this like a million times, and I'm sorry
> in advance, but I can't get it fixed this time.
> I installed this new workstation last saturday, installed my ports, etc.
> Now I can't get my desktop to show on Gnome 2.14, after upgrading from
> 2.12, where it did show.
> I tried all the soluitions given on the list, rebuilding the cache,
> rebuilding all the relevant ports, rebuilding individually, etc. to no
> avail.
> I simply can't get the desktop to show. Everything else seems to be
> working OK, even the themes.
> If I go to desktop preferences, all of a sudden a wallpaper will show
> up, but no icons.
> I've been at it for about a week and I really am at my wit's end.
> Anyone have an idea?

How are you starting GNOME?  What errors do you see on the console or in
~/.xsession-errors?  What happens when you run nautilus from the command
line while logged into GNOME?  What happens when you create a dummy
account and try to login to GNOME?

Joe

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