Re: Desktop icons gone

["Anthony E . Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

David Shochat wrote:
> I must have done something that caused the icons for most of the items
> on the desktop (namely Trash, ldp, helixcode, gnotices, gnome, cdrom and
> fd0) to lose their distinctive icons and revert to generic "sheet of
> paper" or folder icons.
[snip]

I  think this is a problem with ~/.gnome/metadata.db. If you delete it and
restart your GNOME session (logout, then login) it will be recreated and the
icon files will be re-read.

Tony
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