On Friday 13 Jun 2003 10:49 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030613 15:21]: > > All I wanted to do was change the icon on the link. I wasn't > > trying to do anything to the directory. > > Ummm, let's start over. You were trying to create a link (icon) on > the KDE desktop? What did you do to create it? > No. I used the ln -s command to create the link to /mnt/OldHome.
> I just right-clicked on my desktop, selected Create New --> Link to > Location, typed in a name (I picked Testing) and browsed to a > folder in /mnt. It left a dumb page-looking logo on my desktop. I > right-clicked on it, clicked on the icon in the dialog box, and > selected a better icon image. It worked easily. > Yes - I had done that before, but it appears to be a hard link, not a soft one, which is why I started again with ln -s. > Is that what you were trying to do? Desktop icons are not symlinks > at all, but small files in the /home/<user>/Desktop folder that > include text instructions. > Are you saying that it would not have mattered at all, and that the Desktop icon would have worked exactly the same as a soft link? You see I am trying to understand the differences so that I will use the correct method for any purpose. > If not then I'm lost about what icon on the link you're talking > about. Having used the ln -s command, I got an icon on my desktop which appears to be owned by root. All I wanted to do was to change the icon by the method you describe above, to the one that shows files_important. Just a way of making a quick differential between that one and the data directory links I have. It would not let me do that, however, unless I became root. What really foxed me, was that the symbolic link I had made to /Graphics created a desktop icon owned by me, whereas the same command to link to /mnt/OldHome created one owned by root. The only difference I can see is that /Graphics is a vfat partition, whereas /mnt/OldHome is owned by root. Is that the reason that the link is also owned by root? Anne
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