Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:26:32PM -0500, Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount the relavent device. And the little menus you get when you right click on them are different. On the source system you have options like unmount and eject While I just have the typical open properties etc etc.. Instead of copying his .gnome-desktop, just right-click on the desktop and select the Recreate Default Icons item. This should create the device icons, with the proper mount/umount/eject menu items. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpyC81KaA6C9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:46:27PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root try cp -dR instead of just -R. That will preserve links as links for right or wrong. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
.gnome-desktop has a link in it (Home Directory) that points to your home directory (in which is located .gnome-desktop in which there is a link to your home directory ad infinitum). that's why it recurses forever use tar instead to copy the directory because it will not follow links. On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: I installed potato from scratch on a friends machine, and they had nifty cdrom and floppy shortcuts that I did not have. So I, since I had their harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root and do a rm -r -f .gnome-desktop. Why does this directory have an infinitly deep structure? It seems recursive to me. Ho can I copy his .gnome-desktop to my home directory? OR, better yet, how does it work, so I can just build one from scratch, with a home directory, a floppy and two cd-rom icons on my desktop? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount the relavent device. And the little menus you get when you right click on them are different. On the source system you have options like unmount and eject While I just have the typical open properties etc etc.. So my obvious question, how do I get these icons to be the same? Where is the set up for this stuff? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
