Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:14 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
Which files? If they start with a period (hidden files), they may be configuration files for various programs.
ls /home/<user>/Desktop/ -lh
FlashDrive.desktop H_DRIVE.desktop myComputer.desktop OpenOffice.org.desktop Printer.desktop shredder.desktop starthere.desktop Support.desktop
If you've gotten this far and not needed them, then you can go ahead and trash them. Store them for a little while in the trash bin before you delete them. Regarding the OO file, try opening OO after you trash the file to see if it complains.
Don't be surprised when you lose all of your desktop icons when you delete these files. Make sure you have backups.
The desktop can be configured any way you want it, you can create and delete to suit your needs/taste. I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread, but there was an earlier thread where someone was asking how to interpret .desktop files. In KDE Right-click on the desktop background, Create New -> Link to Application/Device or whatever sets up a desktop icon of your choice and creates the .desktop file. It's no big deal, you just have to know what your application binary is called and where the icon for it is located if it's not in the standard set presented. e.g when there is a new version of OpenOffice .org or anything else that installs in a unique directory path, you can click on the desktop icon and change the "properties" so it points to the new version. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks