One day the gnome desktop is exactly the way I want with color and photo center and files, etc. on the desktop.
Then today I boot in and dead, no desktop.
when I click on desktop under ‘Places’ nothing happens.
I do not understand what has happened.
OpenSUSE 10.3 Gnome on Dell XPS M1330 w/4GB Ram 320GB HD.
Please enlighten this new user!
Thanks a whole lot,
Chetanji
I’m wondering why no answers yet?
This must be a simple thing.
What could I have done that would make the desktop totally blank and unresponsive?
right click and left click on desktop, nothing happens!
Bottom strip, in windows called ‘taskbar’ from left to right are…
Computer button that opens to ‘applications’ ‘documents’ and ‘places’. Also gives me ‘System’ with ability to Shutdown.
First button on right side shows power history for laptop battery.
Second button is openSUSE updater.
Third button is sound slider.
And the date with current time.
I would appreciate help in getting back my desktop.
I have even tried going through Yast and reselecting Gnome patterns and downloading.
Yet nothing happens to fix my dilemma.
I am lost at the present moment.
Thanks,
Chetanji:)
I’m having a very similar problem. My desktop is missing and Nautilus won’t start, a window file browser pops up for a second and then nautilus closes when I try to browse files. My taskbar is running as well. You might try restarting nautilus but if your problem is like mine, there is nothing to restart. I’m still searching for an answer.
Jeff
I had just installed NVidia for my laptop in 10.3 openSUSE.
The desktop was fine. I use Nautilas as well.
The fact no one is answering shows this must be one of two answers.
or
I may have to try installing KDE 4.1 or move to 11.1 in December.
Hope you find your answer. Please let me know if you happen to come across an answer.
Chetanji;)
Hi
So yourself and the other poster must have something in common as I
have no issues here on this laptop?
What happens if you create a test user and login as the test user?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 2:55, 0 users, load average: 0.06, 0.19, 0.33
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version:
I just created user: test password:test
everything opens up the same.
No desktop and clicking on places-desktop.
nothing happens.
Are we getting somewhere?
Chetanji
Thanks for your input!
I created a user as well and the problem is the same, no desktop. However root is fine. If I “su” to root under my user and launch nautilus, my desktop is then populated with the root desktop and nautilus is obviously running under root. Here’s a link to my previous post that has more detailed information if it helps.
My original post:
Lost my desktop - Nautilus won’t start. - openSUSE Forums
Hi
So a question for both posters, do you have any non standard
repositories enabled? I only use oss, non-oss, updates and packman.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Yes. I’ve sometimes installed from the online opensuse software search and kept a few repositories for software I wanted to keep updating. I’m assuming these are non standard.
I can not use the update repo as it dies with the ‘tsch’ xml update.
I use the ‘nvidia’ and ‘webcam’ repo’s for the laptop.
gnome community repo.
I now have only OSS nonOSS and Packman.
Update will not work.
Chetanji
Hi
What is the output from the command;
zypper lr
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Hi
OK, if the other user has the Gnome community, an update may have come
from there that is causing both your issues.
Can you post the output zypper lr as in one of my previous posts.
You need to get your update one working… Have a look at the
following link and look at cleaning up the database and see if that
helps;
http://en.opensuse.org/Getting_Started_with_openSUSE#Package_Manager_Cleanup
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 4:28, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.07
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version:
ahis@ATECH-7FE15BAEE:~> zypper lr
# | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Alias | Name
---+---------+---------+--------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------
1 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ | Main Repository (NON-OSS)
2 | Yes | Yes | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/ | Main Repository (OSS)
3 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community
4 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.3/ | Packman Repository
5 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - X11:XGL
6 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE
7 | No | No | yast2 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3 | openSUSE-10.3-DVD 10.3
8 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3 | NVIDIA Repository
9 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/src-oss/suse/ | Main Repository (Sources)
10 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community
11 | No | No | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_10.3/ | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports
ahis@ATECH-7FE15BAEE:~>
I just unenabled all but the Three. So all were enabled until several minutes ago.
Here’s mine:
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
---+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | openSUSE:11.0:NonFree | openSUSE:11.0:NonFree | Yes | Yes
2 | http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/1.0/11.0 | openSUSE Education | Yes | Yes
3 | http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/ | VideoLan Repository | Yes | Yes
4 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes
5 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - Games | Yes | Yes
6 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community | Yes | Yes
7 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/webcam/openSUSE_11.0_Update/ | openSUSE BuildService - Drivers for webcams | Yes | Yes
8 | home:etrash | home:etrash | No | Yes
9 | 20080913-001726 | 20080913-001726 | No | Yes
10 | home:hmacht | home:hmacht | No | Yes
11 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono:/Community/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - Mono:Community | Yes | Yes
12 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Yes | Yes
13 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No
14 | openSUSE:11.0 | openSUSE:11.0 | Yes | Yes
15 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No
16 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No
17 | devel:languages:haskell | devel:languages:haskell | No | Yes
18 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - Virtualization (VirtualBox) | Yes | Yes
19 | Emulators | Emulators | No | Yes
20 | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes
21 | home:hgraeber | home:hgraeber | No | Yes
22 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports | No | Yes
23 | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/ | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes
24 | home:allau | home:allau | No | Yes
25 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes
26 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes
27 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE | Yes | Yes
28 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | No | No
29 | home:hfiguiere | home:hfiguiere | No | Yes
30 | openSUSE:11.0:Update | openSUSE:11.0:Update | Yes | Yes
31 | KDE:Community | KDE:Community | Yes | Yes
32 | home:knuckles | home:knuckles | Yes | Yes
33 | Mono:Community | Mono:Community | Yes | Yes
34 | home:ajorgensen:mono | home:ajorgensen:mono | No | No
35 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0/ | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community | Yes | Yes
Hey there!
open the gconf editor by pressing Alt-F2 and typing in “gconf-editor” without quotes. See if “/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop” is set. If its not checked, tick the box and see what happens.
Also try clicking on the “desktop” folder to see if the icons that should be on the desktop are checked. Or the icons you want on the desktop…
Hope it helps! :X
I have my desktop set to not show icons by my choice but show desktop is checked. I think my problem is related to nautilus not even launching. However this may work for Chetanji. Just out of curiosity Chetanji, does nautilus work for you? Can you launch a file browser from either a nautilus icon or the command ‘nautilus’?
Jeff
Hi
Well I must say that’s the most repo’s I’ve see added 
Now you may have picked up an update from the GNOME repositories that
has changed something…
Can you go into YaST and the software management, search on Nautilus
and look at the versions available and where they came from.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 5:20, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version:
Yeah is does look like a lot in context. Almost embarrassing. Most are for less common software such as a wii controller program, xmgr, and such. I did install dropbox from one. It integrates into nautilus as I mentioned in another post:
Lost my desktop - Nautilus won’t start. - openSUSE Forums
To answer your question, I have nautilus 2.22.2-30.3 (i586) installed from the openSUSE-11.0-Updates repo.
Available are 2.22.2-30.3 from the GNOME:STABLE, openSUS-11.0-Oss,and openSUSE:11.0 repos.
Hi
What happens if you launch Nautilus from the cli with strace?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 4:15, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.01
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Sorry, never used strace. Explicitly what to I type, “strace nautilus”? Doing that, the cli just continually outputs info but no window comes up. I end up having to kill it.
Jeff