Re: Desktop files in F31

2020-04-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:10 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/13/20 5:44 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:47 PM Samuel Sieb > > wrote > > > > .desktop files are not really supported any more as things to see or > > click on. > > > > I guess I didn't

Re: Desktop files in F31

2020-04-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/13/20 5:44 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:47 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote .desktop files are not really supported any more as things to see or click on. I guess I didn't realize that, since there is still an installable extension for turning the

Re: Desktop files in F31

2020-04-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote > > .desktop files are not really supported any more as things to see or > click on. I guess I didn't realize that, since there is still an installable extension for turning them on and off. > They are intended to be started through the Gnome

Re: Desktop files in F31

2020-04-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/13/20 10:00 AM, Greg Woods wrote: 2) When I double click one, the Exec=command is executed, but it also opens a full-screen window that I figured out is "gnome-games". I left out an important part of the last email. Unless you're using that application, uninstalling it should resolve the

Re: Desktop files in F31

2020-04-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/13/20 10:00 AM, Greg Woods wrote: The problem I have is with Desktop files (in ~/Desktop). First I didn't see them at all, then found with some Googling that I needed to turn off display of the Trash icon, which now allows me to see the Desktop files. There are two issues: 1) The desktop

Desktop files in F31

2020-04-13 Thread Greg Woods
I just had to replace the SSD in my laptop, which for reasons that would deserve a discussion thread of their own, I ended up having to do a complete reinstall. Then I restored all my home directory files. So what I have is a clean F31, but my own account from the old F30 system was restored. I am