Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:46 pm, Russ wrote: > Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? I think when you drag a file to a new location in Konqueror and release, it will ask you if you want to move, copy or create a link in the new location.

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Hi Greg, Did it and it worked great (after I logged into the console as su). Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: > > Okay,

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: > Okay, I created this folder in my directory "file:/home/russ/wallpaper". > Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say > "file:/usr/share/wallpapers" which is where all the others are. > use ln

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Okay, I created this folder in my directory "file:/home/russ/wallpaper". Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say "file:/usr/share/wallpapers" which is where all the others are. Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:18, David E. Fox wrote: > A possibly better way would be to symbolicall

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, Minor correction. symlinks can be made across partitions, hardlinks cannot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread David E. Fox
> be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder=20 > permissions. A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to /home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. However,

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone > can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a > folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpa

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone > can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a > folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpapers/" but I cannot save any > images there. An

[newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called "more" in "/usr/share/wallpapers/" but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump thr