Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-25 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
Tomlukeywood, I'm leaning on a preference to your ls command recommendation of 4.16. So i'm looking right now at all my home folder's folders in terminal. One of them, MyPDA, holds my Desktop folder. Is there a terminal command to open MyPDA then use the move command to put the Desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-25 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
mv ~/MyPDA/Desktop ~ (~ means your home folder, /home/yourusername)

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-21 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
A few days ago I tried your $ nautilus suggestion and got all of my home folder contents in the terminal not in what I think you mean by graphical. I couldn't do anything with them in the terminal. Today I tried $ nautilus again, in several combinations, and had no luck at all:

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-21 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
just an observation: I always thought Steve Jobs had the Prairie Dog look.

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread tomlukeywood
weird.. what did you install trisquel 7?

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
Just upgrade cleaned up etc. and now having unintended shutdowns. going to take a break. sorry heres screen.

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
I didn't install Trisquel. I bought a new old computer with Trisquel installed. Don't know what it is. What\'s your suggest? something other than 7?

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
I think my recent updating is forcing me to reinstall. My computer is now stopping and backing down to pass word entry after about 90 seconds of running.

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread tomlukeywood
What\'s your suggest? something other than 7? i would recommend backing up your data and then installing a fresh trisquel 7 installation were did you get this computer from out of interest?

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread pinmaritim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
This is an x60 lenovo that was fsf recommended. I don't think it's the installer. I discovered that my Desktop folder has fallen into a subfolder within my home folder. otherwise I'm getting computer performance confidence now so I'm not so interested in reinstall. I know about the

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-17 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
I discovered that my Desktop folder fell into another folder within my home folder. Which probably explains why it's not showing up. But I don't have the skills, without the standard graphical interface, to get at the desktop folder and move it. I did type ls into terminal and there was

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-16 Thread tomlukeywood
or get access to my home folder if you go into your terminal it normally starts in your home folder so just type ls and you should see your files then you can organize them with commands like cp(copy) mv(move) rm(remove) mkdir etc etc

[Trisquel-users] No Desktop or Home Folder Access

2015-04-16 Thread ancientorderoflonghairs
A little history: A few months back I got cloud cover -a white sheet of blankness-- over my desktop at startup. I'd hit the Home button--a minor inconvenience-- on the panel, the cloud cover would disappear, my desktop icons would appear, as would the home folder. A few weeks ago after