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How can find the folder which contains the icon in the desktop?
There is an icon in my Desktop:
I want to find the icon file.
ls Desktop | rg wps
wps-office-prometheus.desktop
List the contents in wps-office-prometheus.desktop:
cat Desktop/wps-office-prometheus....
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Debian Buster LXQt cannot place icons to desktop edge
can anyone help me with this please? I cannot seem to place icons on the desktop to the edge of the screen. There is a gap on the left and a much larger gap to the right where I cannot place icons ...
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In Fedora 33, (Gnome 3) Desktop Folders dont appear
I usually use Ubuntu LTS but thought I'd give Fedora 33 (Gnome 3) a try. Works well except when I save, move or copy folders to my desktop, they dont appear there (but show up in a file list of the ...
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Best way to check if Nautilus File Manager is running?
I've been working hours on this problem. When nautilus file manager is NOT running nautilus is running because it controls icons on the desktop.
$ ps -aux | grep nautilus | grep -v grep
rick ...
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Why do freedesktop .desktop files not allow relative paths?
The .desktop files have become the de-facto standard to easily access applications on Linux desktops, with executables not being easily startable from the GUI otherwise and many launchers not using ...
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Desktop icons gone with nautilus file-manager in Debian 9
How can I make the desktop show icons again under 64bit Debian 9.0 Cinnamon?
I switched from the nemo file-manager to the nautilus one and now my desktop doesn't show any icons/folders and I can't ...
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GNOME confuses names of multiple different Firefox installations
I use GNOME on Debian Jessie and I have different Firefox installations:
the ESR version bundled with GNOME, which I cannot remove (as it is a dependency)
the stable version installed from the ...
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Let me rearrange icons on my KDE desktop (like Windows) [closed]
I was a Windows user for the past few years. I moved to Linux due to bad system stability and frequent blue screens. I tested few of the desktop environments. I like KDE but I don't like its "static" ...
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What is desktop manager of Mint?
What is the desktop manager in Linux Mint? I mean the program which handle icons on desktop, wallpapers, etc. -- I don't mean DE.
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How to arrange icons on desktop in KDE
I'm using KDE, my display manager is KDM:
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/usr/bin/kdm
How do I arrange icons, or better to say - align them to a grid, on a KDE desktop on Debian?
I mean ...
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Change XFCE desktop font color?
I'd like to change the text color(under icons) on my desktop. I already tried editing the .gtkrc-2.0 file but it doesn't seem like there's one.
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How to launch shell script with double click in CentOS 7
I need to be able to execute an executable shell script (sh) with a double click. I set the executable flag on the permissions for the file, and yet when I double click on it, it opens in a text ...
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How can I show desktop icons in Elementary OS?
How can I show icons on the desktop in Elementary OS Luna?
I tried using gnome-tweak-tool and gconf-editor but they didn't work.
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How do I make an application beep when I click on it to launch it?
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I use Debian with LXDE desktop environment. On the Panel that runs along the
bottom of the desktop, there are small program icons (such as for File Manager,
Konsole, Kate editor). When I ...
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How to Change Size of Desktop
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It appears my icons are appearing below my screen. This is part of a screenshot, but I cannot see it on my monitor:
I am running Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon.
I changed the size of my panel, and ...
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Creating links to websites
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I would to create a folder with all of my shortcuts. Is it possible to create icons (like usual links to files in my harddisk) that automatically launch my browser and open ...
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PNG Image not displaying for desktop icon on Fedora 16/17 with Gnome
I attempted to create a desktop icon in Fedora Gnome but I only get a generic binary icon for my application. Installing Gimp or OpenOffice magically makes my icon appear.
I used Google Chrome on ...
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How to put Network places and My computer icon on Fluxbox desktop
I'm getting used to Fluxbox and it is great... I configured everything (icons, keys...) but I have this problem... I can't manage to put my Netowork places and Computer icons on desktop because I don'...
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