Icons on desktop

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Icons on desktop
started by: abacus

Posted by abacus on April 04 2007,21:15

Having just installed DSL on four machines here I was wondering why, on some installs, the program icons appear on the desktop but not on others?

Posted by Felson on April 04 2007,23:11

not really sure what you are running into here... If you give more info on the systems you are having the problem with, someone might have an idea.
Hardware, if you added any extensions to one, and not another. Any extension you may have added at all. That kinda thing

Posted by abacus on April 04 2007,23:52

No haven't added anything - I checked the ICONS+1 setting and thats what it says but still no icons on the desktop.

Posted by abacus on April 05 2007,23:14

Ooops sorry forgot to mention that the computers with the problem seem to be the Pentium III with 128mb Ram.

Posted by abacus on April 10 2007,10:35

JUst to add to this topic - how do I add an icon to the desktop to run a program?

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Posted by roberts on April 10 2007,14:16

icontool.lua
It is also on the menu.

Posted by abacus on April 10 2007,15:58

Thanks!

Puzzled me at first that all the icons were listed in icontool but didn't actually appear on the desktop. Ran xvesa and they all appeared!

Downside is that handy little listing on the top right of the screen dissappeared... the one with memory ip number etc on it!

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Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 10 2007,17:57

Make sure you shut down your old x session first.

Posted by abacus on April 10 2007,18:56

How do we do that?

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