Re: Problem to open Red hat 8 desktop icons

[Ali Akcaagac <aliakc web de>]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 01:25, Chang Huang wrote:
> Hi all:
> I had this problem for a month. I did some install and uninstall software 
> with my redhat 8 box. All the sudden, my icons on the desktop wouldn't work 
> any more, every time I double click any one of them (Home, Start Here, 
> Trash), a error massage display: "nautilus has no installed viewer capable 
> of displaying "/home/usrname/.gnom-desktop/starthere.desktop". But if I 
> restart and log in as root or other user, everything goes fine. Please 
> someone help me to solve it!

Hello,

1) login as root
2) cd into your user homedir (not root)
3) rm -rf .nautilus
4) rm -rf .gnome-desktop
5) cd .gconf/apps
6) rm -rf nautilus

Backup important data first e.g. if you have documents or other private
stuff in the .gnome-desktop dir.

Last but not least, I'm not responsible for any damages.