Icons moving all over the place

[dhossbach]

A few days ago, i had to reinstall mandrake linux on my pc, it seemed a good opportunity to switch from 8.1 to 9.2. Well, may be it was not a good idea.

Now, each time kde is started icons change location, and sometimes they are on top of each other. Every time I need to reorganize them. Is there anything to do about this?

 

Also, I would like to report the following encountered so far:

 

-windows disk hda1 was entirely deleted during installation, although I did not repartition this disk.

-fax2send will not install anymore

-win4lin will not install either

-rekallqt does not work

-crossover does not work either

-corrector 101 does not work

 

Well it seems that everything that did not come with 9.2 will not work.

I am reconsidering going back to 8.1 since I need all the above.

Unless, someone can give some advise to make the above mentioned software to work, I will have to de it.

 

To all people I talk to about migrating to linux, they tell me ok but I need the equivalent of word, excell, access and my accounting software. I can tell there is no equivalent to access for linux and accounting software are almost non existent. I am wondering what the linux people are waiting for?

 

If I have to buy new software after each release, I will have perhaps to go back to windows.

 

Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

[chris z]

not sure about your other issues, but with the icon problem, if you're using KDE, see this thread, it might apply to your situation. scroll down a bit in the thread to read my solution...........

 

KDE icon problems

 

Chris

[dhossbach]

In the '/home/user/desktop' directory I found a very suspicious dynamic icon linking to xsane, wich I deleted. But there is another one for kooka wich I could only delete as super user. The problem is that after reboot, it came up again. Is there a way to remove permanently? I believe this the one that screws up the icon position on the desktop.

 

Thank for any suggestion.