On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:18, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
On a couple of occasions I have seen an icon appear on my KDE desktop called a 'Floppy Desktop Lock'.
"Lock"? Does it really say that, or is it just that the icon has a small picture of a lock in it?
What is the icon telling me and can it safely be deleted and the icons re-arranged?
If it is what I think (the small picture of a lock) then it is telling you that you have a floppy inserted and mounted, and that it's write protected (or at least that you don't have permissions to write to it) You can of course safely delete the icon, since the icon is just a shortcut and doesn't have a hardware significance, but it should be deleted automatically when you no longer have a floppy inserted You can also configure the system to not show hardware icons, in KDE's control centre. I believe it's in Desktop->Behaviour->Device Icons