I’m working on a project that uses various virtual machines for development.  They’re supplied by the client, so I have to use what they provide.  One of the VM’s that they provide is a Fedora Core image.  For most of the year, I’d been working with an image of Fedora Core 12.  Just recently, however, I had a chance to upgrade to their latest image, Fedora Core 15.

So far it’s nice, but one thing that was missing was the icons on the desktop.  I read through a few forum postings, then finally found this blog post by Leonid Mamchenkov.  It mentions using gnome-tweak-tool.

I installed gnome-tweak-tool using yum, then ran it:

$ sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool
$ gnome-tweak-tool

The application came up, and I selected “File Manager” and noticed that the “Have file manager handle the desktop” option was off.  I turned it on, logged out, logged back in, and voilà, my icons reappeared.