On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 22:31 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> writes: > > > I have a cron job that just backs up the entire .gconf directory every > > few hours. If I ever lose my settings, or if I accidentally screw > > something up, I can just restore that backup and be back to where I was. > > > > Note that desktop icons are a slightly different issue though. While I > > believe gconf does store the position of the icons, the actual files are > > stored elsewhere. So to really "move the desktop" to a new machine, > > you'd have to make sure that the appropriate files are copied over as > > well. > > > > It's strange: I copied my whole ~/.gconf directory and put it into another > partition, with the same Linux system: Debian Etch, and the panel and the Home > and Trash icons were set just the same, but the Terminal icon that I have on > my desktop is not put onto the other desktop. > > So, the problem of moving the desktop to a new machine seems more difficult > than it was supposed to be... Any desktop icons you have will have to copied over from wherever they are actually located (probably NOT in the ~/Desktop directory unfortunately). The gconf info will only position the icons, it's still up to you make sure that you copy the file to the new location. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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