Hi all, On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 07:37:54 -0500 Apache <apache@pii3.brahms.bnl.gov> wrote concerning "Shift report 20011105 00:00-08:00": > 3: No detector problems, but at some point during the night > the Desktop-folder on the ~opertor account seems to have been > reset! This has happened to me at home too and normally I just > reset my preferences, ... <grin>I've never seen this in GNOME</grin>, though my terminal settings are sometimes reset. > ... but here it seems that all the executables had been moved > permanently to Desktop? That is ... to put it mildly ... a stupid thing to do - honestly, that spells computer incompetents of biblical proportions. Install programs in with --prefix=${HOME}, ${HOME}/i386_linux22, ${HOME}/software or something like that, and never touch those directories by hand. And _never_ever_ put it in specific WM/GUI directories like ${HOME}/Desktop, ${HOME}/GNUStep, ${HOME}/.gnome-desktop, ladida. The way to put applications on the desktop, is to use the WM functionallity to do so: In GNOME and KDE, right click on the background and choose, in GNOME New->Launcer..., in KDE New->Application, and fill in the blanks. Use a spade for digging, a hammer to bang in nails. Yours, Christian Holm Christensen ------------------------------------------- Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23 Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm
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