[newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM

2004-12-04 Thread Peter Watson
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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM

2004-12-04 Thread Angus Auld
- 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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM

2004-12-04 Thread Erylon Hines
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 |

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

2003-12-24 Thread moey tony
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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

2003-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
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

[newbie] Desktop Icons

2003-12-23 Thread David
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

Re: [newbie] File Icons

2003-12-07 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 10:06 am, Mike Adolf wrote: Is there a way to add icons to desktop links? For example, I have a .sh that launches netbeans IDE. I have a link to that .sh on my desktop. How can I give that link an icon independent of file

[newbie] Desktop icons (kde)

2003-09-12 Thread Jonesy
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

Re: [newbie] Desktop icons (kde)

2003-09-12 Thread Derek Jennings
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

[newbie] desktop icons

2003-07-04 Thread Tsyko
Please help!!! 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... Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] desktop icons

2003-07-04 Thread Sharrea
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

Re: [newbie] desktop icons

2003-07-04 Thread Tsyko
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

[newbie] GTKam icons won't go away!

2003-06-02 Thread Eric Scott
I have mnk 9.1 running on both an Athlon XP at 1.6GHz and a Pentium MMX at 233MHz. I had GTKam installed on both, which didn't work with my AIPTECK pencam. After opening GTKam (gphoto2) and trying it with my pencam, two launcher icons appeared on my gnome desktop. these wont go away. I

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-09 Thread robin
Charles Roberts wrote: robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-09 Thread Jozef Riha
well, i had the same problem few minutes ago and i did it!! i am sorry, but really cannot tell you how but suddenly it just worked. i played with Control Center a lot - that's all i can tell. try allow desktop menu, font menu settings.. do not give up cheers, joe robin wrote: I'm sorry if this

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 23:36, robin wrote: After extensive googling, I found a hint - someone had the same problem and solved it by completely uninstalling KDE, then reinstalling. Apparently KDE sometimes prefers to be installed rather than upgraded. This was in SuSe, but may also apply in

[newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread robin
I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 06:39, robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Roberts
robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail,

[newbie] Bluecurve icons in mdk9

2003-02-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have both mandrake 9 and RH 8 installed. I wanted to use redhat icons in mandrake. I tried symlinking /usr/share/icons/* in RH to that in mdk. All icons are displayed in kde control center/look and feel/icons selection of mandrake but for bluecurve. Any known reasons? -- L.V.Gandhi 203,

[newbie] removing icons from login

2002-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
I created an account for a user that only has access to FTP. However, an icon appears for the lilo graphical login. Is there a way to disable/hide individual users? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] removing icons from login

2002-11-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 11:47 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I created an account for a user that only has access to FTP. However, an icon appears for the lilo graphical login. Is there a way to disable/hide individual users? Todd Yes Open KdeControl CentreSystemLoginManager select Administrator

Re: [newbie] removing icons from login

2002-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 23:57:17 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 Nov 2002 11:47 pm, Todd Slater wrote: I created an account for a user that only has access to FTP. However, an icon appears for the lilo graphical login. Is there a way to disable/hide individual users?

[newbie] Installing icons

2002-10-29 Thread Wayne Petherick
All, I have downloaded some awesome icon themes from the net (I really want to install crystal). I have followed the instructions to the letter (pasted below), but these do not work. Can anyone tell me how to install icons you get from the net? Thanks, Wayne Open the KDE-Menu an start the

[newbie] Mozilla Icons

2002-07-04 Thread John Richard Smith
I need to find out where to put the Mozilla icons, or how to get Mandrake control Center's menu utility to find then, currently in /usr/local/mozilla/icons. I thought if I added them to say KDE icon folder, but I cannot find it, anyone got any ideas. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Icons

2002-07-04 Thread Curtis H
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:33, John Richard Smith wrote: I need to find out where to put the Mozilla icons, or how to get Mandrake control Center's menu utility to find then, currently in /usr/local/mozilla/icons. I thought if I added them to say KDE icon folder, but I cannot find it,

[newbie] User Icons

2001-12-15 Thread Jason Jesso
Which package contains those user icons when you login? You know the penguin with boxing gloves, with a chef hat, etc... Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

2001-11-12 Thread Kathy Montgomery
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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

2001-11-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
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

RE: [newbie] Desktop Icons

2001-11-12 Thread David Robertson
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

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread s
On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:06 am, michael wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: Best solution for now is to use Texstar's 8.x kde rpms, qt2, and deps. http://www.pclinuxonline.com Tom: I can't find them there. I searched using 'obj-prelinked' then 'kde rpm's'

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:06 am, michael wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: BTW, the newer cooker kde rpms incorporate objprelinking, but you won't get any speed benefit unless you also get the qt2 rpms and a few other deps. Best solution for now is to use

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:06:19 -0700, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 October 2001 03:38 pm, you wrote: BTW, the newer cooker kde rpms incorporate objprelinking, but you won't get any speed benefit unless you also get the qt2 rpms and a few other deps. Best solution for

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 26 October 2001 02:57 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know where the kicker icons live? I just went to cooker and installed some kde rpms (libs,base,artwork) and they're all gone!!! I know, I shouldn'ta messed with a good working system, but I wanted to see if Konq was getting faster

Re: [newbie] Kicker icons gone

2001-10-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 26 October 2001 03:57 pm, michael wrote: Does anyone know where the kicker icons live? I just went to cooker and installed some kde rpms (libs,base,artwork) and they're all gone!!! I know, I shouldn'ta messed with a good working system, but I wanted to see if Konq was getting

[newbie] KDE Icons

2001-06-09 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, Does anyone know where the icons for the menu items in KDE are stored? I keep trying to add items to the menus and then can't find the icon in the list. But I can find the icon manually. So, I need to know where to copy the icon too? TIA, Cheers, Jord

RE: [newbie] KDE Icons

2001-06-09 Thread Michael Spivak
The icons stored in : /usr/share/icons -Original Message- From: Jordan Elver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 3:44 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] KDE Icons Hi, Does anyone know where the icons for the menu items in KDE are stored? I keep

[newbie] Gnome icons on KDE desktop

2001-04-06 Thread Giovanni Montana
Hi folks, I am using Mandrake 7.2. When I log in as a user into KDE 2.0 some Gnome icons and windows appear on the desktop ... how can I get rid of them? I thought of looking for a KDE configuration file inside the .kde folder ... am I right? If yes, which file should I modify? Thanks a

[newbie] Cd Icons on Desktop

2001-03-24 Thread Maurice.Arthur
Hi 7.2 Supermount in fstab . How do I creat icons for CD drive and Cd DVD drive.Still unable to mount these drives inspite of fact that fstab states these drives are mounted. Regards Maurice

Re: [newbie] Cd Icons on Desktop

2001-03-24 Thread s
its /etc/mtab that tells you what actually gets mounted at boot. fstab is what you hope gets mounted. Can you not mount manually in a terminal? To make an icon, right click the desktop and choose which type of shortcut you want then fill in the blanks. In this case it would probably be a

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-18 Thread Romanator
Hi Traci, I remember this happening to me quite some time ago. Okay. You'll have to do this while logged in as "root". I'm trying to do this from memory - so please bear with me. Click on the KDE icon. Navigate to Look 'n Feel. Check out the different settings for the mouse. There is one setting

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-18 Thread Romanator
Traci, Log in as root and click on the KDE Control Center. Try the following steps: 1. Select the KDE Control Center button 2. Navigate to LookNFeel-General 3. Choose the General tab 4a. Place checkmark next to "Align Icon Vertically on Desktop 4b. Place checkmark next to "Enable Desktop Menu"

[newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Traci Collins
Hi! I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and had just begun to play with it when I had an X lockup and ultimately needed to reboot the system to regain control. Even the keyboard shortcuts wouldn't take me to a virtual console... After the reboot neither Gnome nor Sawfish were graphical environment

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Romanator
Hi Traci, Have you tried right clicking on the desktop and select "application". You will have the option of selecting the icons for your application by clicking on the dropdown arrow. Select Devices. Select the icon and OK. It's important to note that by default, it will check System first. If

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Traci Collins
Romanator wrote: Have you tried right clicking on the desktop and select "application". You will have the option of selecting the icons for your application by clicking on the dropdown arrow. Select Devices. Select the icon and OK. It's important to note that by default, it will check

RE: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I'm referring to the icons on the desktop in the graphical logon... -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... What icons are you referring to? The ones

RE: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
the icons there. That may make sense?? -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... Weird. I always make the users during install. Look in /home/someuser/.desktop (I think. Its

RE: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-09 Thread Eddie Torres
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No icons... What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like in KDE? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first

RE: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Thanks, Eddie, I will try it. -Original Message- From: Eddie Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons... Ok, here's what you do Kelly. Login as root ( I haven't been able to su and do this) and go

Re: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-09 Thread Goldenpi
r 09, 2000 12:35 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] No icons... I did make the users during the install. Last night out of curiousity, I installed it on another one of my machines and this time I got the icons that I wanted. Go figure! However, I did do the expert install these past couple of times. Mayb

[newbie] No icons...

2000-11-08 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the desktop when we log in. I have them in root

Re: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-08 Thread Eddie Torres
What icons are you referring to? The ones on the graphical login? or like in KDE? On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day

Re: [newbie] No icons...

2000-11-08 Thread Goldenpi
ber 08, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: [newbie] No icons... I have a question that probably has a very simple solution. When I installed Linux MDK 7.1, all went well. The first time, I logged in as root and all was fine. The other day I set up users for myself and my wife and neither account has icons on the

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-14 Thread GAPrichard
I agree. Computing history is implicit in some of the configuration and learning curve issues we're having to deal with as newbies; knowing computing history helps to explain some otherwise odd and confusing things in Linux. Besides, many things, like the Xerox PARC deal, are just plain

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-13 Thread GAPrichard
I agree. Computing history is implicit in some of the configuration and learning curve issues we're having to deal with as newbies; knowing computing history helps to explain some otherwise odd and confusing things in Linux. Besides, many things, like the Xerox PARC deal, are just plain

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-12 Thread Paul R
Roger Pithers wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote: Larry Marshall wrote: Comment - We must be about due for a flame here - something about wasting bandwidth on reminiscing. Don't know what this has to do with penguin icons but I for one am certainly enjoying it, so please

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-12 Thread John Rye
Paul R wrote: Larry Marshall wrote: I agree regarding the root login - however seems that even in the GUIs one needs to violate the conventions now and then. I guess my view is that the commandline has conventions and that the GUIs are now developing them. I only have two

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Just type 'mc' at your terminal prompt - it should be part of the standard install. It's almost exactly like the Dos equiv. - a few Very interesting...something new to play with. thanks. I'm not ofay with the history of Linux - I suspect that Linus may have

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: Aaah Larry, don't worry about it. We all run a few neurons shy of a whole molocule now and then. Love that typo Mark - I thought you were referring to my monocle for a few Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons Larry Marshall wrote: Co

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm only using it because of the huge accumulation of Word, Excel and Yep, my work dictates that I be Word-compatible. In fact, Star Office isn't quite up to that task, though it's pretty good. Anyone here have enough experience importing Word docs into Applixware to comment on it? I'm

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
you are - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Kathleen Dickason
I think it was a joke... Kathleen Goldenpi wrote: Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: R

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Oh, just forget it. - Original Message - From: "john bodanske" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons you are - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EM

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread Larry Marshall
I agree regarding the root login - however seems that even in the GUIs one needs to violate the conventions now and then. I guess my view is that the commandline has conventions and that the GUIs are now developing them. I only have two neurons and so I need to use them wisely when it comes

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I agree regarding the root login - however seems that even in the GUIs one needs to violate the conventions now and then. I guess my view is that the commandline has conventions and that the GUIs are now developing them. I only have two neurons and so I need to

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I've seen reference to Midnight Commander but haven't tracked it down. It sounds like it would serve as an intermediate between a GUI filewindow and doing a whole lot of cd-ing. Just type 'mc' at your terminal prompt - it should be part of the standard install. It's

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread root
Larry go into the drakconf click user addition and at the bottom you will see icon and a down arrow. you can select the icon to use with the user...unfortunately I don't know how to change an existing user. Larry Marshall wrote: I stumbled on a "simple" thing today that had me scratching my

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread Larry Marshall
Comment - We must be about due for a flame here - something about wasting bandwidth on reminiscing. Don't know what this has to do with penguin icons but I for one am certainly enjoying it, so please don't stop!! Well...first there was this dumb question I asked about penguins. Then

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread Larry Marshall
Just type 'mc' at your terminal prompt - it should be part of the standard install. It's almost exactly like the Dos equiv. - a few Very interesting...something new to play with. thanks. I'm not ofay with the history of Linux - I suspect that Linus may have been avoiding copyright issues.

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry Marshall wrote: Comment - We must be about due for a flame here - something about wasting bandwidth on reminiscing. Don't know what this has to do with penguin icons but I for one am certainly enjoying it, so please don't stop!! Well...first there was this dumb question I

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
As root... K Menu -- Settings -- Applications -- Login Manager Click on User tab and play, Works like a dream Thanks for the pointer. I guess I'm from the old school so my sys admin stuff is done by my doing an su to root rather than logging on as root. Thus, most of this graphical

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: As root... K Menu -- Settings -- Applications -- Login Manager Click on User tab and play, Works like a dream Thanks for the pointer. I guess I'm from the old school so my sys admin stuff is done by my doing an su to root rather than logging on as root.

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Long time since I worked exclusively at the command prompt - grin!!! I suppose I'll get used to using all those graphical "aids" but I'm comfortable at a Unix commandline, I was taught that one only logged in as root under the most dire of circumstances, am too lazy to dump out of X and

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Long time since I worked exclusively at the command prompt - grin!!! I suppose I'll get used to using all those graphical "aids" but I'm comfortable at a Unix commandline, I was taught that one only logged in as root under the most dire of circumstances, am too lazy

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-07 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I stumbled on a "simple" thing today that had me scratching my head. I helped a buddy install Mandrake 7.0 today. In doing so we set up an account for him (his name is Bob) and Mandrake decided to make his login icon a girl. I did point out to him that it was a cute

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-07 Thread Mwinold
a man and his icon such a happy story!. lolol

RE: [newbie] Penguin Icons for Linux MDK7.1

2000-09-04 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Penguin Icons for Linux MDK7.1 On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi everybody, I am looking for penguin images

Re: [newbie] Penguin Icons for Linux MDK7.1

2000-09-04 Thread Mwinold
cnet, zdnet, comeon thats what search engines are for!

Re: [newbie] Penguin Icons for Linux MDK7.1

2000-09-04 Thread Romanator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cnet, zdnet, comeon thats what search engines are for! I have found what I needed this morning.

[newbie] Penguin Icons for Linux MDK7.1

2000-09-03 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I am looking for penguin images of all sorts and sizes, including desktop themes for my Linux MDK7.1 OS. And, I would like to add them to my Windose NT4 OS desktop and email. I checked Tucows but was unsuccessful. Any help would be appreciated. Roman Registered Linux User #179293

[newbie] Disk icons.

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
I have been messing with drives, adding more hd's and a seconds floppy drive. I created the link from /mnt/some_drive to a file on my desktop, but had to log in as root to set the icon. Then I found the icon in /mnt had changed as well. An hour of investigating revealed that the icons on the

Re: RE:Attn: byte-runner [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-10 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
- Original Message - From: "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 8:41 PM Subject: RE:Attn: byte-runner [newbie] Desktop Icons Why did your e-mail ask for a read receipt? Are you building a mail list or something? nah I

Re: RE:Attn: byte-runner [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-09 Thread Bill Stark
No, list don't get paranoid, its just that I leave it on auto - Original Message - From: "Ken Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 8:41 PM Subject: RE:Attn: byte-runner [newbie] Desktop Icons Why did your e-mail ask for a re

Re: [newbie] Deleting icons from kde desktop

1999-12-09 Thread Satyajit Das
Just click right mouse buttom and select "Delete" . that's ok for me. You can try. satyajit Greg Pritchard wrote: Could someone please tell me how to get rid of some of the icons on the kde desktop. I have tried deleting them from the desktop and from the desktop file in /home/user/desktop

TID Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-09 Thread M Thompson
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

[newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-08 Thread Lars Nordin
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

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-08 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
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 d

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
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

Re: [newbie] Deleting icons from kde desktop

1999-12-08 Thread Ribbo
Pada Senin, 06 Dec 1999, Greg Pritchard menulis: Could someone please tell me how to get rid of some of the icons on the kde desktop. I have tried deleting them from the desktop and from the desktop file in /home/user/desktop but when I logoff then logon again all the icons reappear. I have

RE:Attn: byte-runner [newbie] Desktop Icons

1999-12-08 Thread Ken Wilson
Why did your e-mail ask for a read receipt? Are you building a mail list or something? -Original Message- From: Ralph | byte-runner | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 8, 1999 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop Icons did you try deleting them :-) byte

[newbie] Deleting icons from kde desktop

1999-12-07 Thread Greg Pritchard
Could someone please tell me how to get rid of some of the icons on the kde desktop. I have tried deleting them from the desktop and from the desktop file in /home/user/desktop but when I logoff then logon again all the icons reappear. I have deleted icons as root and they have not returned to

[newbie] KDE icons wont go away

1999-06-03 Thread Niels Larsen
Hi, In Mandrake 6.0 under regular user name, a number of KDE icons (Mandrake news, docs, KDE package manager etc) shows up when the machine is booted, even though these icons were delete during a previous session; ie something keeps writing kdelnk files into users Desktop directory. That may be