Re: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:02 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling
> > > > > the various components from source.
> > > > >
> > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not
> > > > > get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the
> > > > > top panel.
> > > > >
> > > > > I can use nautilus to navigate to /usr/local/share/applications
> > > > > and launch various gnome apps by double-clicking on the *desktop
> > > > > files, so things seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why
> > > > > there are no application icons on the desktop.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, but this
> > > > > does not change anything - any trouble-shooting suggestions would
> > > > > be welcome.
> It might make it easier to troubleshoot if somebody could help me out with the following:

Are you sure that it is failing to find the desktop files and doesn't
just fail to render the app view?
We use a GLSL effect there. If the shader fails to compile or your
driver claims to not support GLSL
we simply do not use it but maybe you are running a craptastic driver
that compiles the shader and then
renders nothing?

Which video card and gpu driver are you using?