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Posted: July 16 2006,21:39 QUOTE
Sorry about that dumb question,but i really need to know what command i should use.
I've googled it/searched the forum/FAQ and found nothing.

Can someone please explain it?
I've tried
run firefox
open firefox
nothing works.

there are no icons on the desktop.

Thanks
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Posted: July 16 2006,23:22 QUOTE
- by default DSL boots with icons on the desktop.
- check the md5 of the downloaded iso
- verify you have burned the iso correctly
- Use the menu to re-enable a full desktop w/ icons

Perhaps you meant you disabled the icons, the command to run firefox would be 'firefox' in console afaik.
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Posted: July 16 2006,23:55 QUOTE
What are your system specs? If you don't have that much ram you might not get icon's on the desktop as well.
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Posted: July 17 2006,03:09 QUOTE
And if you don't have enough ram to display icons, you definitely don't have enough to run firefox.

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Posted: July 17 2006,23:19 QUOTE
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ July 16 2006,19:22)
- by default DSL boots with icons on the desktop.
- check the md5 of the downloaded iso
- verify you have burned the iso correctly
- Use the menu to re-enable a full desktop w/ icons

Perhaps you meant you disabled the icons, the command to run firefox would be 'firefox' in console afaik.

I've downloaded the latest version of DSL;
the checksum is ok;
today i've burned the iso again;

How can I use the menu to re-enable the icons? I didn't see any option.

I'm using the live CD and there are no icons on the desktop(really).

I have 512MB ram.

Also "firefox" command(without the quotation marks) doesn't work.
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