about symbolic links on Desktop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 6/1/06, nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/1/06, nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 1) When i create a symbolic link on desktop from a
>>>> terminal, say
>>>>
>>>> ln -s /etc etc_dir_pointer
>>>>
>>>> a little icon shows up. However, when I
>>> right-click on
>>>> the icon and select "Properties", all the icons
>>>> disappear and as i don't know how to fix it, i
>>> need to
>>>> logout and login again to bring back any icon on
>>> the
>>>> desktop. Any suggestions?
>>> I'd be interested to see if xfdesktop is crashing.
>>> You could check to
>>> see if it's running in the System Monitor (Menu >
>>> System > System
>>> Monitor, IIRC).  If so, running it again (Alt+F2
>>> will give you the Run
>>> dialog) would most likely give you your icons back.
>>>
>>> That way, at least you may not have to log out each
>>> time....
>>
>> Exactly as you suspected, xfdesktop was not running!
>> And again exactly as you pointed out, Alt+F2 trick
>> worked. Thank you!
> 
> Can you get a backtrace on xfdesktop using gdb?  This sounds
> particularly bugworthy.  (Maybe Brian could shed some light?)

I'm not really interested unless it's against current SVN.

	-brian

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