On Sunday 10 September 2006 22:28, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:21:13 -0400 > > alan zl3kr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I managed to stuff that up, Robert I used that to try and point at > > the device and of course I now have that on the desktop and cannot seem > > to delete it off there. > > I now have it there using the url pointer to set it up thanks. > > Can you or Chris tell me how to get rid of the wonky one?? > > when I right click on it it will not bring up delete, so guess there > > is(or hope there is) another way to delete it off the desktop. > > > > thanks Alan > > in your trusty console window: > > cd ~/Desktop (change directory to the Desktop) > ls (list whats there) > rm whatever (remove (ie delete) the offending file) Remember that 'whatever' is both the label of the icon, and the name of the file. Remember that if the label has spaces in its name then you have to surround the file name with quotes.
e.g. rm "The Windows to Linux Letterbox" The file may end with .desktop, if so, put that inside the quotes. -- CS
