[KLUG Members] Fwd:Position of Desktop Icons SuSE8.2 KDE 3.1.1

[Stu Gillis]

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This was on the suse-kde mail list last week.  
 
  
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>>> I place my shortcuts on the Desktop, but when I login for the 
>>> next time, all icons are misplaced. How can I save my session, 
>>> so all icons remain in the position I prefer ? 
>>>  
>>> SuSE 8.2 prof. KDE 3.1.1 
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>>>  
>>> with best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen 
>>>  
>>> Holger Winkler 
>>>  
>>>  
> Copy all the icons (right-click on each) and copy them firstly to 
> your home directory to back them up; and then copy them into the 
> /home/Desktop directory. After this look on the systray, bottom 
> righthand side and you will see (most likely, unless with you have 
> already messed with it) a green ball with a lower case "i" in it. 
> This is the new SuSEwatch thingie introduced in SuSE v8.2. Right 
> click on it and QUIT it. Doing so will wipe off the desktop the 
> icons it originally created but because you have copied them to 
> /home/Desktop they are not lost.  After this you the icons will 
> behave as they did in v8.1 et alia. (There is a bug in this 
> SuSEwatch thingie which is causing the problem with the icons.) 
>  
> BTW, when you copy the icons into the /home/Desktop directory you 
> will end up with 2 copies of them on your desktop until you 
> quit/delete the SuSEwatch button on the systray after which you 
> will have a single copy to play with. 
>  
> -- 
> Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. 
>  
> Pablo Picasso 
>  
 
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