Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

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Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

Postby TheBigH on Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:32 am

I just installed the extremely minimal Mint LXDE on an old computer I'm trying to resurrect and so far it's running great. There's just one thing that's puzzling me, and that's how to move the desktop icons. I'd like to be able to put them in different groups on the desktop according to their function, but I can't. They just line up along the left side in some random useless order. How can I put them where I want them?
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Re: Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

Postby ibbill on Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:17 am

TheBigH right click the desktop and uncheck keep aligned.
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Re: Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

Postby TheBigH on Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:43 am

ibbill wrote:TheBigH right click the desktop and uncheck keep aligned.


I do not get that option if I right click the desktop.
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Re: Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

Postby ibbill on Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:05 am

TheBigH wrote:
ibbill wrote:TheBigH right click the desktop and uncheck keep aligned.


I do not get that option if I right click the desktop.


Scroll down to right click on desktop there is some information there. Hope this helps.


http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions
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Re: Linux Mint LXDE- how do you move desktop icons?

Postby TheBigH on Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:18 am

I have gone through every menu reachable by right-clicking the desktop, with and without the "Show menus provided by WM when desktop is clicked" checkbox marked, and there is nothing like the "keep aligned" option anywhere.
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