Desktop files

Carl William Spitzer IV

20 Jul 2005 20 Jul '05

03:25

Is there no one here who understands these files in the desktop directory? Are they just constructed hit or miss? I dont find anything in a borrowed set of 9.2 books. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Dotan Cohen

24 Jul 24 Jul

18:45

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On 7/20/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Is there no one here who understands these files in the desktop directory? Are they just constructed hit or miss? I dont find anything in a borrowed set of 9.2 books.

Which files? If they start with a period (hidden files), they may be configuration files for various programs. Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/126/concrete_blonde.php Concrete Blonde Song Lyrics

Carl William Spitzer IV

26 Jul 26 Jul

16:30

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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:45, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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On 7/20/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Is there no one here who understands these files in the desktop directory? Are they just constructed hit or miss? I dont find anything in a borrowed set of 9.2 books.

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 ... -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Dotan Cohen

27 Jul 27 Jul

04:14

New subject: [SLE] Desktop files

On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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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. Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/108/carey_mariah.php Carey, Mariah Song Lyrics

Ken Schneider

10:56

New subject: [SLE] Desktop files

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:14 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Sid Boyce

11:57

New subject: [SLE] Desktop files

Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:14 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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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

Carl William Spitzer IV

28 Jul 28 Jul

04:08

New subject: [SLE] Desktop files

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:14, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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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. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

Sid Boyce

11:32

New subject: [SLE] Desktop files

Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 21:14, Dotan Cohen wrote:

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On 7/26/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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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

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