No icons on gnome dekstop

hello,

i prepared a SuseStudio installation with gnome desktop and installed it on a Geode LX-800 PC:

  • Installation is working
  • i can sucessfully lo into Gnome desktop
  • there are no icon visible on the screen for “Trash” and “tux´s Home”
  • windows show up (e.g. when starting terminal) : but no icons for close screen , …

what can i do ?
do i have to install additional package ? which ?

thanks - peter

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:56:25 +0000, PSchb wrote:

> hello,
>
> i prepared a SuseStudio installation with gnome desktop and installed it
> on a Geode LX-800 PC:
> * Installation is working
> * i can sucessfully lo into Gnome desktop * there are no icon visible on
> the screen for “Trash” and “tux´s Home” * windows show up (e.g. when
> starting terminal) : but no icons for close screen , …
>
> what can i do ?
> do i have to install additional package ? which ?
>
> thanks - peter

It sounds like you’re maybe missing the Nautilus package, I believe that
provides the desktop icons. You might also need to install metacity for
the window decorations.

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

Both nautilus and metacity show up checked = to be installed (automatically included) in Suse Studio

peter

Hi!
First of all be aware that if you in Susestudio/Configuration/Desktop enable autologin for user tux then the user tux will always automaticly login, even after installation of your image…
This means that if you enable autologin for your new user then both tux and your new user will always log in at boot!

Second, be very aware that if you don’t change tux’s UID to something else than 1000 both tux and you new user created during installation will have the same UID…

Finally, I had similar problems as you are having (no titlebar, no icons etc), but I also got errors about ICEauthority and gconf-sanity-checks … I had to make a little script so that every time the image boots it runs the script… Now it’s not sure this script will help you at all, but you can try it anyway…
This scripts makes sure that metacity is the default window manager and makes sure that the file /var/lib/gdm has the correct owner:group… .

There might be better ways to fix your problems, and I’m not sure if compiz will successfully replace metacity as windowmanager (if you need compiz) as long as i’m doing: echo export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/metacity > /home/live/.gnomerc … I have not tested yet.

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script is executed whenever your appliance boots.  Here you can add

# read in some variables
. /studio/profile

if  -f /etc/init.d/suse_studio_firstboot ]
then
  
  # Put commands to be run on the first boot of your appliance here
  echo "Trying to fix gnome related gconf errors.."
  echo export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/metacity > /home/live/.gnomerc
  chown gdm:gdm -R /var/lib/gdm
  touch /etc/init.d/suse_studio_firstboot
fi
exit 0