X and Fluxbox :: Desktop icons...i hate to ask



Right, once again (i am n00b as you know already), im stuck. How do i add/remove icons from the desktop? Im guessing there is a script i don't know about...

Still need to work out a few other things aswell:

- Device Driver in Linux
- Mouse settings (on laptop with 4 buttons, 2 for scrolling)
- Keyboard (stuck in US keyboard cant find out how to get UK)
- All those other things I took for granted in windows which is frustrating in linux (like finding out where to put my files!)

If anyone can help me out, I will be grateful, and, well, I was gonna say something funny to go with that, but, well, grateful is pretty much it  :)[/U][U][U][/U]

Are you using a liveCD or HD install?

Icons and the link (.lnk) files behind them are in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop (need to see hidden files/folders to get to them).
You could edit, add, or remove lnk's (and add gifs/pngs if adding icons).  But I think there's a few catches if you are using a backup to do this with a liveCD, eg. if you removed some lnk's, the backup would not reflect this, it would only ADD or CHANGE stuff, not remove it.  Maybe you could make a script at to run at boot that removed extraneous lnk's?

Don't know if maybe Whitebox can edit desktop icon links?

running a HD install on my laptop. linux really is taking some gettin used to, and my scroll buttons have selectivly decided to work again, why wont they just stay like that??

original here.