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I am not able to get my icons to show on my desktop. I configured via the configuration wizard to show desktop icons yet they don't show.
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Re: desktop icons

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What icons do you want to have on your desktop?
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MagnusB wrote:What icons do you want to have on your desktop?
icons for my mounted drives and maybe others. I have been able to place a text file on the desktop but that is all.
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Run mintDesktop and select mounted drives. If you only have local filesystems mounted it will not show up on the desktop (I.E. root partition or home etc).
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MagnusB wrote:Run mintDesktop and select mounted drives. If you only have local filesystems mounted it will not show up on the desktop (I.E. root partition or home etc).
is mintDesktop a terminal command or GUI?
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Slocker wrote:It's a GUI, just search in the filter box in the menu 'desktop' and you'll see the menu entry.
Can't find menu 'Desktop' or a search filter box on the desktop or in the right click menu or in the configure Desktop.
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ed@Mint wrote:This is very well explained in the Linux Mint user guide : http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/ ... ide_v1.pdf
You can find mintDesktop in menu>preference>mintDesktop
After checking out the user manual for the 3rd time which doesn't help me much since it is for Gnome and I use KDE, I found reference to "mintDesktop" and see it is a function available in Gnome. Thank you for your time.
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ed@Mint wrote:You should always specify which edition of Linux Mint you use :!:
When you don't mention it, everybody assumes you use the main edition, thus Gnome.
You are quite correct and I thought I had done that. Thanks Ed.
Note I have added the version I am using to my signature.
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