desktop icons, context menus, etc GONE

[Apocrathia]

they're just gone. if I open terminal and type "nautilus restart" everything reappears and works, until I close the terminal. I've tried reinstalling the nautilus package but it didn't really fix anything. any ideas?

[Shwefty]

Maybe put "nautilus restart" into your Sessions for startup? This'll get around that open Terminal window thing if it works.

[Apocrathia]

actually I just did that before I refreshed the thread to see if there were any replies. it works, however I get a little error message. a little annoying but everything works again. hopefully it'll get fixed in an update
the error is: Could not find "home/username/restart". please check the spelling and try again.
no idea what that's all about but who cares, its working again for the time being. as long as my dropbox is working I don't care, the box is headless anyways.

[Shwefty]

Heck, try just shortening "nautilus restart" to just "nautilus" in your Sessions. It seemed to not like the "restart" part. :)

[Apocrathia]

tried that, it just opens a nautilus window then.

[Ivo Moelans]

You could try nautilus --quit. This should restart nautilus afresh.

[Apocrathia]

changing my sessions item to "nautilus --restart" made everything work perfectly.