Desktop device icons do not show at all

[Mike]

Well --
here is some update...

I noticed that hotplug was not running as well as devfsd. So, I specified to 
run them at boot time. After I restarted, the machine would go through the 
boot fine except would not bring the graphical login screen. It would just 
sit and wait for it to come up, but respond to keyboard: I could switch to a 
terminal screen and type login name, but even there the process would hang 
verifying the password. The whole mess was probably because of the display 
manager (mdkkdm) confusion from those processes.

Anyway, now I have devfsd, dbus running (no HAL, no hotplug and udev would not 
run because of devfsd) and I got the icons! But the icons from the panel are 
gone! I got what I wanted, but I'll try to get to the bottom of this.

Thanks to everyone for taking interest and suggestions.

Mike.

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:01, Mike wrote:
> Thanks, Justin --
>
> I have all those services running, except dbus. Is this a new requirement
> for KDE? I had icons in kde 3.3 without dbus. I can run devfsd. Would that
> make a difference?
>
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:06, Justin Denick wrote:
> > You must have something running in the background that will monitor for
> > theses devices.
> >
> > As I understand it, dbus will monitor changes in your userspace and tell
> > the kernel when something happens. Like you plugging in your jump-drive
> > or a printer. From there udev will name/type the device according to
> > predefined rules in /etc. I believe from there hotplug will recognize the
> > device (placed appropriately by udev in /dev) as whatever it is and load
> > the appropriate modules. It is at this point the HAL daemon will tell kde
> > to plop a pretty little icon on your desktop.
> >
> > I may be off on a few points here so if anybody has a better, more
> > accurate description, please let us know.
> >
> > On 9/20/05, mikeumo at sbcglobal.net <mikeumo at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > Hello --
> > >
> > > I checked all the icons I like in "Configure desktop > etc.", including
> > > the
> > > unmounted devices. Yet there are no icons on my desktop (after kde
> > > restart).
> > >
> > > Can someone help me?
> > >
> > > mike.
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