Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:14, 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.
I do not want to delete them I want to understand them and the various settings.
Try setting up a desktop link to an application in KDE as I described in my previous post, then compare the .desktop file generated with what you've set up. Right-click on the desktop icon and select "Properties" of any of the above and compare with the .desktop file. lancelot@barrabas:~> less Desktop/gonvert.desktop [Desktop Entry] Comment= Comment[en_US]= Encoding=UTF-8 Exec=/usr/local/bin/gonvert GenericName= GenericName[en_US]= Icon=/usr/local/share/pixmaps/gonvert.png MimeType= Name=gonvert Name[en_US]=gonvert Path= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-DCOP-ServiceType= X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= -------------------------------- "gonvert" is the Name I gave it. "/usr/local/bin/gonvert" is the command. "/usr/local/share/pixmaps/gonvert.png" is the icon I selected. Description, Comment, mime type and Work path I left blank. UTF-8, StartNotify=true both setup by KDE as default. It wrote /home/lancelot/Desktop/gonvert.desktop when I clicked OK. The desktop icon then appeared. Since it worked, I didn't even bother looking at gonvert.desktop until now. This is my usual routine when I need a desktop icon. On some I have to prefix the command with "sudo" if it needs to be run as root and on others such as knoda, it starts and I only need to fill in the database name, user root and root password. 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