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

[Jon Smitley]

This will be very useful for two of the three user accts on the box, but the
little green indicator did not apply itself to my primary acct.  I thought
it was weird that it didn't show up there, but now I may need to find a way
to get there so I can make this change.  Any ideas.

PS This was an upgrade from 8.1(not a clean install). With this one
exception, It went easily and quickly.  Very nice overall.

Forward From: Stu Gillis <sfgillis@fastmail.ca>

> >>> SuSE 8.2 prof. KDE 3.1.1
> > 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.