Re: Stretch with Gnome 3.22 : Icons on desktop
On 2018-03-02, Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr> wrote:
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> On 02/03/2018 14:03, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2018-03-02, Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi !
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>> You can create your own icons by drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, or by
>> creating files in your ~/Desktop directory.
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> It works this way on my old desktop running Debian Lenny and Gnome 2.22
> also on my laptop on Ubuntu 14.04..
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> but not on my new Debian Stretch with Gnome 3.22. Here, there is no way
> I can drag and drop something that will remain on the desk, nor can I
> copy and paste ; I can just create files in my desktop directory, where
> I can just have files, no app.
Strange. It works for me (as they say) with GNOME 3.22 on Stretch. I
also tried it with the same GNOME version on CentOS 7, also with
success.
> I surely can have text files or pdf files
> that will launch either Libreoffice or evince...
Have you tried a simple
cp /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop Desktop/
?
> and I could possibly put there a few sim links to apps, but this is
> far from being quick and easy as it used to be with gnome 2
Agreed.
--
Liam
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