On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:13 -0700, Yves Bajard wrote: > Thanks for the inputs to my question #1 from Ritesh Khadgaray and Andre > Klapper > > On the advice of Ritesh, I found gconftool in /usr/bin and started > writing my command line as indicated by Andre. > > Now, I am stuck with qa last problem: in Mandriva, you do not ahve a > folder called /Desktop. This most probably refers to user's desktop directory. $HOME/Desktop
Is this related to the below gconf-key ? /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir If set to true, then Nautilus will use the user's home folder as the desktop. If it is false, then it will use ~/Desktop as the desktop. > > You have a number of Desktop folderes in /usr, /etc and /var. I tried > the two which at first sight appeared to be the most likely to fint and > did not "strike gold".. > > Now, here is the list of my folders containing Desktop or desktop: > > 1. /home/yvesbaja (my user name) > 2. /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop > 3. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/desktop > 4. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/nautilus/desktop > 5. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop > 6. /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/nautilus/desktop > 7. /home/yvesbaja/gconf./desktop > 8. /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/desktop > 9. /usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kcontrol/desktop > 10. /usr/share/mcc/desktop mcc styands for Mandriva Control Centre > 11. /usr/share/rpmdrake/desktop > 12. /var/lib/gnome/desktop > > > I modified Andre's script for folders | 2 and 12. without success. > Which script ? > Is there among you one person who would be capable of helping me make a > choice among the ten rfemaining locations? > > Thanks > > > Yves Bajard > > PS: I leave the previous excnage below, for clarity > > Le vendredi 04 août 2006 à 06:58 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray a écrit : > > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:11 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > > > hi yves, > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 02.08.2006, 22:44 -0700 schrieb Yves Bajard: > > > > One problem, though: my /opt is empty. Where can I find for > > > > "/gnome/bin/gconftool-2" > > > > > > depends on the gnome installation directory of your distribution, don't > > > know about mandrake specifically. > > > > > > > mandriva does not install any software under /opt afaik > > /usr/bin/gconftool-2 . should be in your PATH . > > > > > > I work in KDE 3.4.2. > > > > > > doesn't KDE also have a file search? ;-) > > Yes, a nd I used it, Thanks. > > > > > > cheers, > > > andre > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Evolution-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
