Re: Desktop icons gone

[David Shochat <shochat acm org>]

Wow. What an instantaneous response! Thank you. That was exactly it.

But I would still like to know: Where is the mapping maintained? In 
other words, what exactly was being modified/repaired by my doing that? 
If there is documentation somewhere, just point me.
-- David

Stephen M. Williams wrote:

> Try right-clicking on the desktop and selecting "Recreate Default Icons"
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 20 Feb 2001 22:37:44 -0500, David Shochat wrote:
>
> > I must have done something that caused the icons for most of the items 
> > on the desktop (namely Trash, ldp, helixcode, gnotices, gnome, cdrom and 
> > fd0) to lose their distinctive icons and revert to generic "sheet of 
> > paper" or folder icons. I tried creating a new user account with an 
> > empty home directory, and it had all the distinctive icons and slightly 
> > different names. But I can't figure out what is different between my 
> > configuration and this new user configuration that would account for 
> > this. Both seem to have identical .gnome-desktop contents, for example. 
> > So what determines the actual icons and names for those items? Two of 
> > the items do have the proper icon on my desktop, namely Bug Report Tool 
> > and Helix GNOME Update. But I can see how those two are controlled by 
> > bug-buddy.desktop and helix-update.desktop in .gnome-desktop. How are 
> > the icons and names for the other things determined? More to the point, 
> > how do I fix this?