Michael, Thank you very much! This did indeed do the trick and restored my right click menu: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true I lost my desktop background and items don't unminimize when I click on them in the gnome-panel, but those are less important.
thanks again, --jack --- On Tue, 11/29/11, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > From: Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> > Subject: Re: Bug#648615: Latest update of nautilus in unstable has removed > everything from desktop > To: "JS" <jsh...@yahoo.com>, 648...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 3:04 PM > On 29.11.2011 15:58, JS wrote: > > Thank you Michael, > > > > When I try to bring in gnome-tweak-tool with apt-get, > it brings in a lot > > of gnome 3 packages as well, like gnome-shell (even > though I've pinned > > gnome to 2.30). My sources.list points to wheezy but I > tried adding in > > some snapshot.debian terms for August 2011, to no > avail. > > > > I would think this configuration item would exist in a > text file under /etc. > > > > Is there a way to access it directly, without > gnome-tweak-tool? > > Changing to gnome 3 is a big decision and I wouldn't > want to do that > > just in order to solve this issue. > > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background > show-desktop-icons true > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent > life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org