White Desktop Icons

All icons on my desktop show up as white sheets. The same document in the Finder shows the appropriate icon. At startup or when you drag something to the desktop, you see the right icon for a brief second before it goes white.
Delete a plist somewhere? I assume this is not normal. Considering the mess you see with icons for folders in the Dock, best not to assume...

What is happening is that the Finder is drawing little bitty actual pictures of the contents of things. With a graphic file it is pretty obvious. With something that is some sort of text file the result is rather less satisfactory, unless you have your Desktop icons set to extra gigantic.
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googling about, i found out it could be a issue related to how nautilus manages thumbnails ....but unfortunately all threads are concerning gnome 2.x...NOT gnome 3.x
some of you encountered such a problem?
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Last edited by jib (2012-11-19 13:08:14)

guys
i've solved this way:
from: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/os/Linux/distr/ … g/os/i686/
i downloaded: nautilus-3.6.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
so i downgraded nautilus (pacman -U nautilus-3.6.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz) from 3.6.3 prior to 3.6.1-1 (unfortunately i couldn't find 3.6.1-2 or 3.6.2 vers around)
restarted nautilus and everything is back to normal
ps: remember to add nautilus in IgnorePkg section (/etc/pacman.conf), otherwise it will be upgraded back again as soon as a pacman -Su is issued
i share with you this piece of information if it can be useful
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Some of my desktop icons have turned white

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