Re: desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-07-01 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Michal R. Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just kill nautilus - it should respawn automatically. If you cannot open a > terminal window to type ps or kill, switch to console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in, > find the nautilus process, kill it, log out and switch back to

Re: desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:19:28PM +0800, Star Liu wrote: >thanks, i believe that should work, but all my current work windows will >lost, I wonder if there is some commands to restart just a single task, it perhaps killall, that should work... Just go to a full screen console and run it (

Re: desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-06-30 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 30/06/08 14:19, Star Liu wrote: thanks, i believe that should work, but all my current work windows will lost, I wonder if there is some commands to restart just a single task, it seems should be nautilus, but I cannot kill and restart nautilus by "kill ***". (it seems desktop icons and file

Re: desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-06-30 Thread Star Liu
thanks, i believe that should work, but all my current work windows will lost, I wonder if there is some commands to restart just a single task, it seems should be nautilus, but I cannot kill and restart nautilus by "kill ***". (it seems desktop icons and file browser are managed by nautilus, so it

Re: desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:45:28PM +0800, Star Liu wrote: >recently, on both my etch and lenny, desktop icons often disappear and >file browser doesn't work, i think it should be a known bug, though i can >still operate by terminal commands, i wonder is there any easy method to >res

desktop icons disappear and file browser doesn't work

2008-06-30 Thread Star Liu
recently, on both my etch and lenny, desktop icons often disappear and file browser doesn't work, i think it should be a known bug, though i can still operate by terminal commands, i wonder is there any easy method to restart the desktop icons display and make the file browser work? thanks! -- -