niti Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 I made KDE upgrade to 3.4 from cooker. The icons such as home, my computer etc. are not appearing on desktop. How can recover them? thanks.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 (edited) Can you make new, identical icons/links? It would be the fastest recovery. ;) Edited May 5, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 I dont find the computer icon where in to see all folders on my computer. Besides, system special button's icons dont working correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 activate the hidden files view in konqueror. now backup all important data you might have in your /.kde and subfolders (in case you are using e.g. kmail). now move the hidden /.kde and /.qt folder to your trash. this will regenerate the default settings for kde 3.4 once you log in again. i hope your icons will be back in place then. if not, please report back. good luck. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 I did that you said. But KDE 3.4 does not start.Instead, KDE 3.3 starts now. The icons are still disappearing on desktop. I cant find trash icon to recover the former .kde and .qt folders . PLEASE HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 (edited) if kde 3.3 starts now, i guess you made a big mistake when updating to kde 3.4. you need to uninstall kde 3.3 before updating to 3.4 afaik. otherwise, your system will go nuts. in any case... as the temporary files you removed are still in the trash (/home/username/.trash), put them back in place. this should get you back to the old settings. it is better to wait for others opinion on this, but i almost guess you need to reinstall 3.4 properly. in order to facilitate things, please tell us what you did when you updated to kde 3.4. give information on uninstalled packages, commands you ran and installed kde libraries, if possible. Edited May 6, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 (edited) Like you said, I did not uninstall KDE 3.3. I directly update it to 3.4 with synaptic with cocoker repositories. I ran synaptic and went to upgradable sections and selected all upgradeable packages that are generally KDE 3.4 upgrade packages. I am in Gnome 2.10 now and will uninstall all KDE packages and reinstall with just 3.4 packages now. Edited May 6, 2005 by niti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 (edited) I did now reinstallation. The icons are not still seeing on the desktop. I created the link location /user/.Trash folder . Then, I double click it, the window is pop up, which involves "open with"."run in terminal" etc. For example, I move a file to trash with right click menu. Then I went to /.Trash in my home folder. It has nothing in. Edited May 6, 2005 by niti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 (edited) I am clicking home button in storage media , result is: Error - KIOExec Retrieving data from system is not supported. Edited May 7, 2005 by niti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 hmm... now i think that i do see the problem. you are running cooker packages which are development packages. thus they tend to break things and they are definitely not for relative inexperienced linux users. there are other sources for kde 3.4. we do have a topic on this here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24239&hl= i hope the packages submitted there will not recreate this bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 Try opening KDE Control Centre. Go to Look & Feel and click on Behavior. Make sure there is an x in the part titled Show Icons On Desktop. Then click on APPLY at the bottom and you should see your icons again. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 Try opening KDE Control Centre. Go to Look & Feel and click on Behavior. Make sure there is an x in the part titled Show Icons On Desktop.Then click on APPLY at the bottom and you should see your icons again. oooh... i had forgotten about this option... doh! yes, try this first before anything else. thanks, john. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 (edited) Try opening KDE Control Centre. Go to Look & Feel and click on Behavior. Make sure there is an x in the part titled Show Icons On Desktop.Then click on APPLY at the bottom and you should see your icons again. Dear John, Thanks for your interest. I checked it that Control Center, it is selected. My problem is still going on. For example, I created a new "link to location" to .trash in my home folder. Then, I delete a file, open trash folder but deleted file is not appearing. Edited May 8, 2005 by niti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niti Posted May 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 I solved problem formating and reinstalling Mandriva :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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