Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (348 mails)

[Jaan Kold <jaan.kold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 February 2004 00:24, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 9:58 pm, Acki Wagner wrote:
> > every time kde 3.1  starts my icons are spread in a big mess all over my
> > desktop,  so i have to sort them again manually.
>

My take on the subject.

ISSUE:  Desktop icons keep moving (or even dissapear)

REASON: Suse Watcher (tray green circle item) has "ownwership" of these 
DYNAMIC icons and updates (places) them anywhere it wants on on each boot.

SOLUTION: First make copies of the icons: (ie. create 'xxxxx.desktop' config 
files)  to your ~home dir, AFTERWARDS quit susewatcher (round green/yellow/
red tray icon). Now copy these 'xxxx.desktop' config files  to your ~home/
Desktop directory, icons will now be preserved. Do not kill Susewatcher 
before copying/creating  'xxx.desktop' files, otherwise you'll kill these 
ghost icons too..since root controls these.)
You'll find afterwards when browsing the desktop dir. with a file manager, 
that you now have STATIC 'xxx.desktop' files (in your ~home/Desktop 
directory) that are YOURS -- and can be placed on the desktop anywhere you 
want.

jk

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