Mate desktop items have disappeared

[rsal]

I have Salix-Mate in 2 desktops and update them regularly. Since yesterday, I have found (probably after update) that the desktop items have disappeared on both of them (even though items are there in ~/desktop folder). Also right-click on does not work so I cannot change the desktop picture. How can I correct this and bring these icons back?

[ChuangTzu]

I have Salix-Mate in 2 desktops and update them regularly. Since yesterday, I have found (probably after update) that the desktop items have disappeared on both of them (even though items are there in ~/desktop folder). Also right-click on does not work so I cannot change the desktop picture. How can I correct this and bring these icons back?

Is there a "mateconf-editor"? If so then go to apps/caja/desktop and check the icons you want to appear on the desktop.

Been a while since I played with MATE but that is how I did it before on another distro.

[gapan]

There was no update that would cause this.

Do you have any NFS mounts? If you do, is the server accessible?

[rsal]

There is no mateconf-editor but there is dconf-editor where I checked org.mate.caja.desktop, where computer-icon-visible, home-icon-visible, trash-icon-visible and volumes-visible are already checked.

Regarding NFS and server, I am purely a desktop user and do not know about NFS and server use of linux. I have not deliberately tried to change any of these setting. Please let me know how to check for these. (There are NTFS partitions on these computers which I can easily access without any problems).