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

[Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl>]

Hi John,

I had the same thing, getting an empty white/greyish screen when
enabling to show icons on the desktop in shell 3.10 - Mageia.

For me it helped to set a background wallpaper instead of the default,
it did not immediatley work out but after a few tries and a few
login/logouts it showed the wallpaper and the icons.

I suspect a bug somewhere but don't know where.



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On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 04:09:43 +0000
John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:

> > 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?
>
> I'm using intel hd3000 graphics with the
> xf86-video-intel-2.21.15/MesaLib-9.2.2 drivers
>
> Note that if I type a letter (it doesn't seem to matter which letter)
> into the search box at the top, I see the icons for "backgrounds",
> "keyboard" and one other panel from gnome-control-center, but nothing
> else - this would seem to indicate that the graphics side of things
> is working?
>
>
>
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