Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM
- Original Message - From: Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 01:37:48 + I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete option. I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or supermount muck it up and refuse to allow me to unmount or eject. Also both of these drives are listed twice in X-CD-Roast once as ATA and once as ATAPI, they also appear twice in kwikdisk. Anyone know why this is? TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Hi Pete, You can get rid of the desktop icons by going to System/Configuration/Configure your desktop/LookNFeel/Behavior/Device Icons tab. Can't help you on the other issues. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM
On Saturday 04 December 2004 05:37 pm, Peter Watson wrote: | I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). | How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete | option. | | I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted | removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or | supermount muck it up and refuse to allow me to unmount or eject. | | Also both of these drives are listed twice in X-CD-Roast once as ATA and | once as ATAPI, they also appear twice in kwikdisk. Anyone | know why this is? | | TIA If you haven't already found the answer (assuming you are using kde): 1. right click anywhere on your desktop 2. choose configure desktop 3. click on the Behavior button 4. under the Devices section--uncheck any that you don't want 5. O.K. As far as I know, scsi emulated devices always show up twice in X-CD-Roast. At least on my system, they don't show up at all in kwikdisk. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
have u tried configuring from the Control Center in KDE? - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:20:20 +1300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Desktop Icons Hi all, i'm new to the list so if this has been addressed before please so so. I've looked in the archives but could not find anything there on the subject. That does not mean its not there if it is its just I didn't find it. My problem is a minor but annoying one and is that on startup the desktop icons all gather on the left of the screen in any old order they feel like.I have to snap them to grid each time to see to use them. This happened under 9.1 and now 9.2, in 9.0, my first experience with Linux they sat where they were told to. Any info on how to get them to appear on desktop as I want on startup appreciated. Both myself and my Guru are stumped on how to fix this problem. TIA David -- *** This email originates from a 100% Mandrake Linux OS computer. If you receive a virus apparently from me, it is because this email has forged someone elses Windows Address Book headers. I'm not interested in hearing about it, thanks. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:20, David wrote: Hi all, i'm new to the list so if this has been addressed before please so so. I've looked in the archives but could not find anything there on the subject. That does not mean its not there if it is its just I didn't find it. My problem is a minor but annoying one and is that on startup the desktop icons all gather on the left of the screen in any old order they feel like.I have to snap them to grid each time to see to use them. This happened under 9.1 and now 9.2, in 9.0, my first experience with Linux they sat where they were told to. Any info on how to get them to appear on desktop as I want on startup appreciated. Both myself and my Guru are stumped on how to fix this problem. Assuming you are using kde, open up the Control Center Components Session Manager. I think that if you set that up to restore session, then arrange your icons where you want them and log out, it should do what you want. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop icons (kde)
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 7:17 pm, Jonesy wrote: Exists there somewhere a collection of misc. desktop icons for KDE? I'm an OS/2 user slowly moving into the Mandrake world, and I've started trying to implement the functionality of my OS/2 desktop in my mdk boxen (8.2 and 9.1). One feature I use are desktop, and/or folder-included objects, to dial, hangup, kill, and restart the InJoy dialer over on my OS/2 gateway machine (via rsh.) The on-board choice of icons in MDK\KDE is thin and un-inspiring. Barring no public collection of icons, is there an icon conversion tool to convert the 3,000+ OS/2 icons I've gathered over the years? TIA Jonesy Check out http://www.kde-look.org/ lots of icon sets available there. derek BTW: could you remove the reply to field in your mail client please. It is not necessary and makes it awkward when replying to a mailing list. -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] desktop icons
On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:54, Tsyko wrote: My icons for the multiple desktops have dissapeared, the oncly way i can change to the other desktops is with ctrl + f1 and so on, The icons were convenient but i don´t know where they went or how to get them back... Assuming you're using KDE and you mean the pager in the panel at the bottom of your screen: righ-click on an empty space on the panel and select Add Applet Pager Hope that's what you're looking for. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] desktop icons
yeah baby thats what I want Thanks On Friday, 4 July 2003 20:13, Sharrea wrote: On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:54, Tsyko wrote: My icons for the multiple desktops have dissapeared, the oncly way i can change to the other desktops is with ctrl + f1 and so on, The icons were convenient but i don´t know where they went or how to get them back... Assuming you're using KDE and you mean the pager in the panel at the bottom of your screen: righ-click on an empty space on the panel and select Add Applet Pager Hope that's what you're looking for. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
Funny, I'm not finding this option in my Nautilus preferences... ? I have set the preferences to Intermediate and Advanced. - Kathy David Robertson wrote: Hi If you are using Nautilus, go into preferences and make sure that use Nautilus to draw the desktop is checked. I think you need to have the preferences set to at least intermediate to do this. Then log out and back in: your icons should be there. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:43:24 -0500 Kathy Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, I'm not finding this option in my Nautilus preferences... ? I have set the preferences to Intermediate and Advanced. - Kathy David Robertson wrote: Hi If you are using Nautilus, go into preferences and make sure that use Nautilus to draw the desktop is checked. I think you need to have the preferences set to at least intermediate to do this. Then log out and back in: your icons should be there. Regards David If at any time Nautilus was 'turned off' you must use Beginner to reset it to draw your desktop. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Desktop Icons
Open Nautilus, Preferences/Windows and Desktop: it should be there. If you reset your preferences, maybe you need to restart Nautilus. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kathy Montgomery Sent: 12 November 2001 19:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons Funny, I'm not finding this option in my Nautilus preferences... ? I have set the preferences to Intermediate and Advanced. - Kathy David Robertson wrote: Hi If you are using Nautilus, go into preferences and make sure that use Nautilus to draw the desktop is checked. I think you need to have the preferences set to at least intermediate to do this. Then log out and back in: your icons should be there. Regards David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
TID Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
Where is "TweakUI for KDE" when you need it ;-) It would be nice to have a graphical program that really let's you tweak the GUI to extremes. Just my $.02, Matt From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:24:50 -0600 On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, you wrote: Pada Rabu, 08 Dec 1999, Lars Nordin menulis: I was wondering how I could cut down on the number of icons on my desktop. How can keep those icons from reappearing on my desktop? is that KDE ? for KDE just delete/remove all files in this directory: /etc/skel/Desktop do it as root :) -- Rib That wouldn't quite do it for me, an I've been tryin for awhile. I want to keep Floppy and Cdrom, but of all the others no matter if I delete them in both ../Desktop and etc/skel/Desktop Trash, Templates, and Autostart keep comin back. I finally made a blank (as in see thru)icon and set the icon's text to the same color as the desktop, for those 3. Now they're just invisible, but they're still damn there. I reckon it's a compromise till some guru describes the right/easy way to do it ;-) I had to do the same thing in Windows for that stupid 'My Computer' icon, 'cept in Windows you can have no name under the blank icon, so it's really invisible ;-) -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] . __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
did you try deleting them :-) byte - Original Message - From: "Lars Nordin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 12:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Desktop Icons Greetings, I was wondering how I could cut down on the number of icons on my desktop. I tried moving them to a folder on my desktop but the next time I logged in all those icons were regenerated so that I have a set on the desktop and and set in my folder. How can keep those icons from reappearing on my desktop? -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons
Pada Rabu, 08 Dec 1999, Lars Nordin menulis: I was wondering how I could cut down on the number of icons on my desktop. How can keep those icons from reappearing on my desktop? is that KDE ? for KDE just delete/remove all files in this directory: /etc/skel/Desktop do it as root :) -- Rib