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Topic: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

Hi, all.

I have #! Xfce installed and want my 'Recycle Bin' and 'Filesystem' to be visible as icons on the desktop.  I have 'ticked' the relevant boxes in the desktop settings, but they still don't appear. I also found this to be a problem when I used the #1 xfce liveCD.

Anyone found a way around this one?

Thanks,

Chris.

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

In the Icon tab of the Desktop settings you have tickled, give the the 'icon type' drop down a nudge and change it to 'File/Launcher icons' smile

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

Somewhat related...

Is it possible to add some kind of ignore-file in the home-directory so that I can choose which folders to show?

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

tsr wrote:

Somewhat related...

Is it possible to add some kind of ignore-file in the home-directory so that I can choose which folders to show?

/tsr

This http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/04 … stem-menu/ may help, although it's more concerned with the menu, while this http://tillamookrage.blogspot.com/2007/ … icons.html seems to be more to the point.

EDIT -- added second link  hmm

Last edited by winotree (2010-05-17 14:46:44)

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

here you go

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … l-desktop/

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

omns wrote:

In the Icon tab of the Desktop settings you have tickled, give the the 'icon type' drop down a nudge and change it to 'File/Launcher icons' smile

This worked, but now I have too many options. In Xubuntu, the desktop settings asks which icons I want to display. I have 'Home', 'Filesystem', 'Wastebasket' and 'Removable devices'. I get the first three by default, and the fourth when I plug a USB storage device in.

When I tick exactly the same boxes on #!, I get the four I mentioned and links to /backup, /music, /usr...etc, etc.

I don't want these extra files, can they be excluded, somehow?

Many thanks,

Chris.

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

chris_debian wrote:
omns wrote:

In the Icon tab of the Desktop settings you have tickled, give the the 'icon type' drop down a nudge and change it to 'File/Launcher icons' smile

This worked, but now I have too many options. In Xubuntu, the desktop settings asks which icons I want to display. I have 'Home', 'Filesystem', 'Wastebasket' and 'Removable devices'. I get the first three by default, and the fourth when I plug a USB storage device in.

When I tick exactly the same boxes on #!, I get the four I mentioned and links to /backup, /music, /usr...etc, etc.

I don't want these extra files, can they be excluded, somehow?

Many thanks,

Chris.

Please take a look at the second link in my post, just above.  It'll work.  wink

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

chris_debian wrote:
omns wrote:

In the Icon tab of the Desktop settings you have tickled, give the the 'icon type' drop down a nudge and change it to 'File/Launcher icons' smile

This worked, but now I have too many options. In Xubuntu, the desktop settings asks which icons I want to display. I have 'Home', 'Filesystem', 'Wastebasket' and 'Removable devices'. I get the first three by default, and the fourth when I plug a USB storage device in.

When I tick exactly the same boxes on #!, I get the four I mentioned and links to /backup, /music, /usr...etc, etc.

I don't want these extra files, can they be excluded, somehow?

Many thanks,

Chris.

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

Hey, Zwopper.  This is too weird -- last week-end my desktop icons didn't work and I had everything splayed out from one side of my little screen to the other!  yikes  This morning I tried the fix I offered and it worked -- then after reading your post, which eric t also links to, I deleted the changes I'd made and it still works -- as it's supposed to. 

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Last edited by winotree (2010-05-17 20:20:02)

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

Zwopper wrote:
chris_debian wrote:
omns wrote:

In the Icon tab of the Desktop settings you have tickled, give the the 'icon type' drop down a nudge and change it to 'File/Launcher icons' smile

This worked, but now I have too many options. In Xubuntu, the desktop settings asks which icons I want to display. I have 'Home', 'Filesystem', 'Wastebasket' and 'Removable devices'. I get the first three by default, and the fourth when I plug a USB storage device in.

When I tick exactly the same boxes on #!, I get the four I mentioned and links to /backup, /music, /usr...etc, etc.

I don't want these extra files, can they be excluded, somehow?

Many thanks,

Chris.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/64736/#p64736

Cheers, Zwopper.

I'll try that when I get home, tobight.

Chris.

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

winotree wrote:

... while this http://tillamookrage.blogspot.com/2007/ … icons.html seems to be more to the point./

The xfdesktoprc part is obsolete.

Zwopper wrote:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/64736/#p64736

Thanks, this works.

Now, how do I get my right-click menu to show the applications in the main menu, instead of as a child menu at the bottom?  I could care less about every other item in the menu, which is now garbage.

Edit:  Also, which file should I edit to add new application categories (e.g. Documentation)?

Last edited by 73ChargerFan (2010-05-19 03:10:44)

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Re: Desktop icons do not appear in Xfce.

You can have the applications as the main menu or the desktop icons but not both.

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