Well, I had a similar problem. The icons come from /etc/skel/ (this is the
directory there a new users files copies from). Rename it to /etc/skel.bak or
something like that!
Good Luck!
Nikodemus
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> I am using KDE-1.1.2 on Mandrake/Venus and am having a very minor, but
> annoying, reoccuring problem. Every time that I start KDE as a user it insists
> on putting all of the default installation icons on the desktop. If I take the
> unwanted icons out of /home/smolnar/Desktop KDE puts them right back in, either
> when I close that session or open the next one. (This doesn't happen in the
> root desktop.)
>
> >From whence come the unwanted icons and how may I eliminate the annoyance.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
> Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic
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