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| Hi All,
I am by no means new to Linux, Fedora (since RH 6.1) or Gnome (since
1.4), but I have seen from time to time an annoying problem which I
haven't found a solution for yet. I reinstalled FC3 on my desktop
yesterday, and all went OK, as usual. I then upgraded all packages using
up2date, and installed a few more, using yum, from Dag's repository. The
current version is Gnome 2.8.
Today when I logged, everything was a bit weird, starting with
quick-lounge-applet, which still had many launchers in its gconf entry
(I had added 12-off of them after the install), but no icons showed. I
tried to add a new launcher, but it didn't show either.
So I tried adding an icon to the panel (that went OK), and then move it
to quick-lounge with a drag-and-drop. No good: it doesn't show, and
stays in the panel (except that sometimes you can't remove it any more).
So I tried a Custom Launcher, and, strangely, when I clicked on the Icon
button, I could see nothing in /usr/share/pixmaps from the "Browse
Icons" window. Pressing the Browse button and selecting
/usr/share/pixmaps, then scrolling down to any icon displayed its
preview. Permissions in /usr/share/pixmaps are OK (644) and permissions
on /usr, usr/share, and /usr/share/pixmaps are OK too (755).
Another thing is that when I launched Nautilus, say in computer://, all
dirctories there had the icon "file-url.png" and
right-clicing->Properties said application/x-desktop. Double-clicking
yields a message such as 'Couldn'd display
"computer://Filesystem.desktop". Nautilus has bo installed viewer
capable of displaying the file.' Some other types of files, e.g. MP3,
display the proper icon and the MIME type looks OK, but I still can't
opnen them from Nautilus.
I have of course tried other things such as * Removing all .gnome and
..gconf directories and logoff/logon, * Deleting the user and recreating
it, * Trying to create new users to see if the same happens. Apparently,
the same happends to all users, but root is OK.
I'd appreciate any ideas on this... (Permissions? PAM? ??)
Thanks, and sorry for the long post!
Fil
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