Re: lost my desktop icons

["Brian E. Seppanen" <seppanen bresnanlink net>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Kervin wrote:

> I have a shortcut on my desktop that looks like this 
> 
> [kervin@sojourn .gnome-desktop]$ more netscape.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=netscape
> Exec=/usr/bin/netscape 
> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/netscape.png
> Terminal=false
> MultipleArgs=false
> Type=Application
> 
> But instead of using netscape.png, gnome uses the default icon (a plain
> file) to display the shortcut.  Even if I right click on the icon (on my
> desktop) and choose properties and change the icon there, when I press
> ok nothing changes.  This has been happening since I upgraded gnome from
> the one that came with Redhat 6 to the latest tarballs.  This also
> happens with my gnome-terminal shortcut on my desktop.

I had a similar issue where I upgraded from 5.x rpms to the latest
tarballs, and all of my menu options disappeared.  This may be a similar
situation.  What happened to me was that rpms put everything in
/usr/share/... and compiling the tarballs puts everything in
/usr/local/share/...  

When you compiled, you're icons might have migrated from
/usr/share/pixmaps (where the rpm put them), to /usr/local/share/pixmaps
(where the tarballs put them).  Easiest way to find out is use gmc to see
if the pixmap is indeed in /usr/share/pixmaps.

What you can do is uninstall the gnome packages you installed from  
tarball by doing a make uninstall in the src directory, and then
recompile. 

./configure --prefix=/usr (if you're not in the habit of first doing
	./configure --help get used to doing it because sometimes there are
	options that are really nice to know about that aren't included in the
	default configure)
make
make install

HTH.

Brian Seppanen
seppanen@bresnanlink.net