Desktop icons

I love having icons on my desktop, not hunderds of icons, but having a shortcut to Trash is handy. I could not find a setting to do this and set out in search of a solution.

Thank you to Chaos from the Peppermint forum (to view the full article, go to http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=236)

For your home folder, right click on your desktop and scroll to new/blank file and create a blank file on your desktop, open the blank file with leafpad and copy the code below,

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Home

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-fs-home.svg

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

and save to desktop as home.

For root folder, similar to Windows' 'My Computer':

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Computer

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm /

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-computer

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

For network:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Network

Exec=pyNeighborhood

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=network

Categories=Application;Desktop

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

For Terminal:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Terminal

Exec=lxterminal

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-terminal

Categories=Application;Desktop

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

Trash Can:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=Rubbish

Comment=Browser

Exec=pcmanfm trash:///

Terminal=false

X-MultipleArgs=false

Type=Application

Icon=gnome-stock-trash.svg

Categories=Application;Desktop;Filemanager

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;

StartupWMClass=Pcmanfm

StartupNotify=true

I only put a shortcut to Trash on my desktop, but this is a great tutorial. A lot of things are not as "easy" to do when you come from a Windows background. I am glad that there are people out there who are willing to share their knowledge.

Getting started with Peppermint ICE

I installed Peppermint ICE on Saturday 19 02 2011.

I used a Windows tool called Unetbootin to create a Linux startup / install disc from the Peppermint ICE CD that my friend Henry gave me. It installed rather quickly. The 4 GB HDD in my eeepc 704G is now an ext4 drive and Peppermint lives there.

The first problem I had was that the desktop would not sit, it would change every time I unplugged a flash drive (which I was unmounting wrong) or when I restarted.

To fix it: go to the folder /home/username/.config/pcmanfm there are two files and a folder there. Delete the file that is not main.peppermint-ice , I think the file has "backup" in it. I can't check it now as I have deleted the file and emptied the rubbish bin.

How irritating: Not having my desktop wallpaper stick as very irritating, I give it 5/5

The next problem I had was that there was no "arrange icons" option when I right click on the desktop.

To fix it. Right click on a file then check "stick to current position" then right click it again and click on "snap to grid" do it for every icon you have on the desktop. The icons you add after this should be right, but there is no guarantee.

How irritating: Very, a desktop with icons not lined up looks horrible, I would rather not have not have icons on my desktop that icons littered willy-nilly all over the place. I give it 5/5.

Next time we take at look at more problems, more questions more irritations and more solutions. "Ithink I can, I think I can, I think I can..."