[opensuse] Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

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Robert Benjamin

5 Mar 2012 5 Mar '12

18:32

Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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Malcolm

5 Mar 5 Mar

19:57

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default up 16:54, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Benjamin

6 Mar 6 Mar

12:21

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On 03/05/2012 02:57 PM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. Could not find the gnome-tweak-tool. It is installed cause I checked in install/remove software. So how do I proceed now? Thanks. Bob

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Robert Benjamin

14:21

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On 03/06/2012 07:21 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/05/2012 02:57 PM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. Could not find the gnome-tweak-tool. It is installed cause I checked in install/remove software. So how do I proceed now? Thanks. Bob

Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Malcolm

14:54

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:21:31 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/06/2012 07:21 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/05/2012 02:57 PM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. Could not find the gnome-tweak-tool. It is installed cause I checked in install/remove software. So how do I proceed now? Thanks. Bob

Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob

Hi Start the tweak tool, and activate the slider; http://paste.opensuse.org/62643567 -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.9-1.4-desktop up 0:04, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.56, 0.31 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Benjamin

16:26

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On 03/06/2012 09:54 AM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:21:31 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/06/2012 07:21 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/05/2012 02:57 PM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. Could not find the gnome-tweak-tool. It is installed cause I checked in install/remove software. So how do I proceed now? Thanks. Bob

Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob

Hi Start the tweak tool, and activate the slider; http://paste.opensuse.org/62643567

got the tweak tool, I guess. In advanced settings. Matched things like the page you listed: http://paste.opensuse.org/62643567 Still don't know what the slider is. Sorry. Now what is next? thanks. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Benjamin

16:46

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On 03/06/2012 11:26 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/06/2012 09:54 AM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:21:31 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/06/2012 07:21 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:

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On 03/05/2012 02:57 PM, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:32:15 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Noob here. How do you place icons on the desktop after installing a program? Gnome and openSuse 12.1 Installed Skype and can run it but just want to get the icon on the desktop instead of in the applications bar at the left. Thanks for the help.

Hi Fire up the gnome-tweak-tool and in there you can select Nautilus to control the desktop. Could not find the gnome-tweak-tool. It is installed cause I checked in install/remove software. So how do I proceed now? Thanks. Bob

Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob

Hi Start the tweak tool, and activate the slider; http://paste.opensuse.org/62643567

got the tweak tool, I guess. In advanced settings. Matched things like the page you listed: http://paste.opensuse.org/62643567 Still don't know what the slider is. Sorry. Now what is next? thanks. Bob

Just finished checking previous emails and found one from Lynn re: t-bird icon. She said to use Nautilus and go to /usr/share/applications and rt click the icon u want. Then copy and paste it to the desktop. That works, Thanks for your troubles and patience. If u have the time, please explain what you meant by "slider" in your post. It's a good way to learn. Thank you . Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Malcolm

16:53

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:46:53 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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If u have the time, please explain what you meant by "slider" in your post. It's a good way to learn. Thank you . Bob Hi The on/off slider button.... that the green arrow was pointing at ;)

-- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default up 1:56, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Robert benjamin

18:21

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

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On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:46:53 -0500 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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If u have the time, please explain what you meant by "slider" in your post. It's a good way to learn. Thank you . Bob Hi The on/off slider button.... that the green arrow was pointing at ;) OK. I have the slider to "on" where you had the green arrow, and

On 03/06/2012 11:53 AM, Malcolm wrote: the other sliders are the same as you had, but what would I now do with this re: icons on the desktop and gnome-tweak-tool in general. Thanks again for your time and effort. :-) Bob

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Insomniac

17:34

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 08:21 Robert Benjamin wrote: <snip>

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Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob

Hi Bob, Unfortunately a lot of folks on this list forget what it's like to be new and especially the difficulties with beginning to play with a whole new OS, so they tend to give instructions as if you, the newbie, was born knowing how to edit something with emacs and/or vi (just for grins and giggles, you ought to install those two and try them out once. Talk about PITA editors!). I don't use Gnome personally, but this works for me in KDE - click on the menu button in the lower-left-hand corner, scroll up to the application/program/item you're wanting to put on the desktop, left-click and *hold* on that item and drag to the desktop *from* the menu. Hopefully that will work for you just as it does me with KDE. I've no clue why the devs in *both* desktop environments (apparently from what I've read of Gnome users complaining also) decided to 'fix' it so that right-clicking anywhere on the desktop and having it in the context menu (as it used to be in days past) is now gone. It was intuitive, it was fast (and faster) and it was simple (and simpler than now) and just worked. Just shows another old addage that made sense is gone along with some few others - 'Don't fix what ain't broke' and 'KISS-Keep It Simple Stupid' are just a couple. -- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Benjamin

7 Mar 7 Mar

00:42

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Placing icons on desktop v 12.1

On 3/6/2012 12:34 PM, Insomniac wrote:

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On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 08:21 Robert Benjamin wrote:

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Can I give you any more info about what I did to follow your instructions or anything else I can do to get icons on the desktop. Once a program is installed, I can only find it in the launcher at the left, and can't move the icons to the desktop. Thanks. Bob

Hi Bob,

Unfortunately a lot of folks on this list forget what it's like to be new and especially the difficulties with beginning to play with a whole new OS, so they tend to give instructions as if you, the newbie, was born knowing how to edit something with emacs and/or vi (just for grins and giggles, you ought to install those two and try them out once. Talk about PITA editors!).

I don't use Gnome personally, but this works for me in KDE - click on the menu button in the lower-left-hand corner, scroll up to the application/program/item you're wanting to put on the desktop, left-click and *hold* on that item and drag to the desktop *from* the menu. Hopefully that will work for you just as it does me with KDE.

I've no clue why the devs in *both* desktop environments (apparently from what I've read of Gnome users complaining also) decided to 'fix' it so that right-clicking anywhere on the desktop and having it in the context menu (as it used to be in days past) is now gone. It was intuitive, it was fast (and faster) and it was simple (and simpler than now) and just worked. Just shows another old addage that made sense is gone along with some few others - 'Don't fix what ain't broke' and 'KISS-Keep It Simple Stupid' are just a couple. Wow, that last paragraph is really great. I guess if one dev does something different or complicates things the others are bound to follow cause otherwise you may be looked at as falling of the high-tech train, so you do a similar thing. Whatev! Will try the things you do for KDE tomorrow and let you know. Thanks. Bob

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