Frank McCormick wrote:
> That's what works here in gnome-classic.
>
That's what works in standard gnome themn, too. I have yet to see
a reason tot run gnome-classic beyond the obvious absence of compositing
effects.
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Thank you kindly, Selim, that is a good tip also.
I think we can safely close this thread.
Charles
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Selim T. Erdogan
wrote:
> Charles Krinke, 3.03.2012:
>>
>> I do have a "gnome-panel" panel and I can manipulate it to some
>> extent. Meaning I have an application
Charles Krinke, 3.03.2012:
>
> I do have a "gnome-panel" panel and I can manipulate it to some
> extent. Meaning I have an application item, my several virtual
> desktops which I can rename normally, the clock and a few other
> goodies.
>
> The key right now is the missing desktop items causes m
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:40:16 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote:
> Thank you Cameleon, it is working now. I appreciate your advice in
> working through this.
You're welcome... and please, keep a bottom-posting style¹, it makes your
stuff far more readable ;-)
¹http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:07:02 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
(...)
>> I did create the key "show_desktop" and set it. But upon logging out
>> and back in, there is still no desktop.
>
> There obviously is something missing in your installation but I
Thank you Cameleon, it is working now. I appreciate your advice in
working through this.
Charles
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:16:39 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote:
>
>> Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheezy,
>> but it loo
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:16:39 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote:
> Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to wheezy,
> but it looks like wheezy is not ready enough for prime time.
I wonder what's your understanding of "primetime".
Testing is what its name indicates, a testing a
Dear Frank:
That was it, thanks for the link. Now all the desktop icons are back.
I did google first before I asked this list, but as in much "googling"
one needs a "string" that gets useful data out of the noise, and you
found such a string.
Charles
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Frank McCorm
Ok. Well, I thought it would be interesting to update squeeze to
wheezy, but it looks like wheezy is not ready enough for prime time. I
will annoy myself with missing desktop icons for a while and then
perhaps move back to squeeze if it does not find a resolution.
I thought testing for wheezy woul
On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
X>>
If you are running Gnome-classic, AND there are desktop files in
~/Desktop, go into a terminal and run "nautilus -n". You then should have
desktop icons. Log out, and log back in. They should be there still. If it
doesn't work, in a terminal wind
On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
Thank you very much for working with me. I was able to run "nautilus
-n", logoug and log back in. I was also able to run gconf-editor and
find "apps/nautilus/preferences", but in there there are five settings
and none is "show desktop". Although I can
Dear Frank:
Thank you very much for working with me. I was able to run "nautilus
-n", logoug and log back in. I was also able to run gconf-editor and
find "apps/nautilus/preferences", but in there there are five settings
and none is "show desktop". Although I can see things that relate to
the desk
On 03/03/12 01:48 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
Dear Frank:
Maybe my issue is I dont quite get what you are saying. There is no
gconf-editor program. I can see a gconftool program, but dont know how
to enable the Desktop programs to be displayed or even if this is the
right tool.
Didn't we ju
Dear Frank:
Maybe my issue is I dont quite get what you are saying. There is no
gconf-editor program. I can see a gconftool program, but dont know how
to enable the Desktop programs to be displayed or even if this is the
right tool.
So, I guess the question is no, we didnt quite deal with this. I
On 03/03/12 12:33 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
Dear Kai:
I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the
wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items
defined in ~/Desktop for the normal user do not appear anymore and I
am trying to get back to seeing the
Dear Kai:
I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the
wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items
defined in ~/Desktop for the normal user do not appear anymore and I
am trying to get back to seeing them on the desktop with "gnome
classic" at this
On 03/03/12 11:21 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
I can't recall if gnome-classic hides the icons over the desktop, I would
have expected they are visible to mimic the GNOME 2.x style. OTOH, the
top menu is still there and app
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>>> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons.
>
> Nautilus does not handle the desktop in gnome3 by default. But this can
> be changes with a flag. The easiest way to set the flag back to true is
> via gnome-
Camaleón wrote:
>> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons.
Nautilus does not handle the desktop in gnome3 by default. But this
can be changes with a flag. The easiest way to set the flag back to
true is via gnome-tewak-tool: First line in section "Desktop".
gnome-tweak-tool comes in a
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:15:02 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote:
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> I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
>
> 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the
> launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them
> to d
On 01/03/12 11:15 PM, Charles Krinke wrote:
I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the
launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them
to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the
I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today.
1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the launchers
from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them to display? I
have temporarily changed to XFCE and the icons from ~/Desktop/ now display
properly, bu
On 09/21/08 16:05, Paul Cartwright wrote:
Paul Cartwright wrote:
I had an issue with my capslock working backwards ( when I press it in
and the light lights, I type in lower case.., when it was NOT on, I
type in caps..). So I logged out & back in. Now I have the system
tray, with the main menu,
Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I had an issue with my capslock working backwards ( when I press it in
> and the light lights, I type in lower case.., when it was NOT on, I
> type in caps..). So I logged out & back in. Now I have the system
> tray, with the main menu, time... but there are no icons on my
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I had an issue with my capslock working backwards ( when I press it in
and the light lights, I type in lower case.., when it was NOT on, I
type in caps..). So I logged out & back in. Now I have the system
tray, with the main menu, time... but there ar
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