[Novalug] Ubuntu 8.04 - wallpaper and desktop items have disappeared

[Joseph Brinkley]

Gnome, Well it should be looked into maybe getting a shell and installing
KDE or Xubuntu would benefit.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:12 AM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:

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> TO be clear, this is a GNOME  issue and NOT UBUNTU in my experience. I
> do not know what Jim did, but I have hosed gnome on more systems than I
> can to remember.
>
> and that GNOME REQUIRES Evolution, don't get me started. Don't even get
> me started.
>
> Maybe gentoo is the distro I need to look into.
>
> Joseph Brinkley wrote:
> > "Geez Jay :P"
> >
> > Ubuntu is known for being unstable it grabs the latest and sometimes not
> > so greatest. It is definitely an experimental distro a since Ubuntu has
> > been out i have seen more and more start grabbing at these New package
> > and setting them in to prime time with out giving it a test runs.
> >
> > Meh someday they will slow down again right now we can expect things to
> > keep up this way for awhile.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org
> > <mailto:jhart at kevla.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     /rant mode on
> >
> >     So, you changed one little thing, now you have broken system.  I'm
> >     sick of
> >     "new features" in Linux when basic functionality is still an issue. I
> am
> >     wondering when distros will stop adding new feature after new
> >     feature when the
> >     underlying infrastructure is not as stable as it could be.  Make the
> >     distros
> >     core features stable, then go back to adding new features...  Cool
> >     stuff ain't
> >     cool if it doesn't work 100% of the time.
> >
> >     /rant mode off
> >
> >     Jay
> >
> >     Jim, this is not aimed at you for anything you did.
> >
> >     > I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
> >     >
> >     > I was fiddling around with changing wallpaper, and I have broken
> >     > the desktop somehow.  When I log in, none of the items on my
> desktop
> >     > are visible, and no wallpaper is displayed.  The files and
> directories
> >     > are still present, but they are not being displayed on the desktop.
> >     >
> >     > If I select System | Preferences | Appearance from the menu, the
> >     > Appearance Preference window opens for a half-second and then
> >     > closes before I can see or change anything.
> >     >
> >     > Any ideas about how to fix this?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
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