MadHattr Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 I was woundering how i can manualy edit the directory that my desktop is located at? is there a file i can edit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 I'm not quite sure what you mean. Taking myself as an example, do you mean changing /home/terry? I've never done it, but I'd imagine that you'd need to rename terry/ inside of /etc/passwd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 I think what hes asking is how do you change /home/user/Desktop to /some/other/dir the easy way (although I'm not sure it would work) is to link /home/user/Desktop to another dir mv /home/user/Desktop /home/user/Desktop.old/ ln -s /this/is/my/dir /home/user/Desktop chown user.user /this/is/my/dir I can't see anywhere in KDE to change it any other way :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Well, what I think he's (I'm only assuming gender...I don't know you...sorry :-)) asking is the Desktop's directory is /home/omar/.gnome-desktop (mine) in Gnome and I think I remember it being /home/omar/.kde/Desktop in KDE, but some icons are drawn dynamically and will come back if you delete them. Also, in Nautilus (Gnome) under advanced preferences, there is the option of using your /home directory as your desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Well, what I think he's (I'm only assuming gender...I don't know you...sorry :-)) asking is the Desktop's directory is /home/omar/.gnome-desktop (mine) in Gnome and I think I remember it being /home/omar/.kde/Desktop in KDE, but some icons are drawn dynamically and will come back if you delete them. Also, in Nautilus (Gnome) under advanced preferences, there is the option of using your /home directory as your desktop. :#: isn;t the KDE desktop /home/user/Desktop or is that some obscure freak dynamic thing that points to /home/user/.kde3.1:#:/.desktop ? I threw that .kde3.1 in just to add a little more confusion :#: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Actually, I was just guessing from memory....deleted KDE and can't remember, but I think he was asking is where is it, so that he can edit it....which makes me believe that either (a) he's using Gnome or some other GUI/WM that doesn't deal with drag-n-drop on the desktop or (B) he wants to get rid of the floppy, cdrom, etc, icons on KDE and they won't stay gone when you delete them by right-clicking on the desktop. More likely (a) ... final answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted February 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Yea thanks for the help,i did what you guys said but i found out that kde wasnt even loading the desktop! but i fixed the problems with kde so now everything is running fine. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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