A rogue icon? (All sorted - Thankyou.)

[leadwt]

Hello.

I've got the following icon on my screen. It just appeared a couple of days ago. Anyone know why?


[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Directory
BgImage=
Icon=desktop

X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase


Thanks

Paul.

[penguin.ch]

Re: A rogue icon?

Is there a file named "[some].desktop" in your user's Desktop folder, i.e. ~/Desktop ...?

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?

Hi UnicornRider,

All I can see is :

/home/frog/Desktop

Is that any help or should I be going up a level?

Thanks.

[penguin.ch]

Re: A rogue icon?

/home/frog/Desktop

What does this folder contain?

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?

There is nothing in 'desktop' apart from that info. shown above.

home/frog/ contains:

file:///home/frog/.balazar_saved_games
file:///home/frog/.beryl
file:///home/frog/.briquolo
file:///home/frog/.config
file:///home/frog/.emerald
file:///home/frog/.fontconfig
file:///home/frog/.fonts
file:///home/frog/.gconf
file:///home/frog/.gconfd
file:///home/frog/.gdmap
file:///home/frog/.glchess
file:///home/frog/.gnome2
file:///home/frog/.gnome2_private
file:///home/frog/.gnupg
file:///home/frog/.java
file:///home/frog/.kde
file:///home/frog/.local
file:///home/frog/.mcop
file:///home/frog/.mozilla
file:///home/frog/.oes
file:///home/frog/.openoffice.org2
file:///home/frog/.qemulator
file:///home/frog/.qemu-launcher
file:///home/frog/.qt
file:///home/frog/Desktop
file:///home/frog/.balazar
file:///home/frog/.barrage.hscr
file:///home/frog/.bash_history
file:///home/frog/.bash_logout
file:///home/frog/.bashrc
file:///home/frog/.beryl-managerrc
file:///home/frog/.DCOPserver_frog-desktop__0
file:///home/frog/.DCOPserver_frog-desktop_:0
file:///home/frog/.directory
file:///home/frog/.dmrc
file:///home/frog/.fonts.conf
file:///home/frog/.gksu.lock
file:///home/frog/.gtk_qt_engine_rc
file:///home/frog/.gtkrc-2.0-kde
file:///home/frog/.hwdb
file:///home/frog/.ICEauthority
file:///home/frog/.kderc
file:///home/frog/.profile
file:///home/frog/.recently-used
file:///home/frog/.sudo_as_admin_successful
file:///home/frog/.Xauthority
file:///home/frog/.xcompmgrrc
file:///home/frog/.xsession-errors


Is this what you are after?

Thanks

[penguin.ch]

Re: A rogue icon?

My "problem" is that as long as I don't know anything about this ominous file's background, I'm reluctant to advise you to just kill the beast, so to speak ...

Update: it seems as if your desktop were displaying the "hidden" file ~/Desktop/.directory ... but why

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?

Mmmmm,

Well I know even less. As I said it just appeared one day. I did remove it to the trash can but it popped up again the next time I brought up the system. I've just deleted it again to see if that happens again.

It seems odd to me as the contents of this file seem not to say much at all and as a 'novice' it's got me wondering! Perhaps I'll wander around the garden seeking inspiration.

Either way thanks - if anything suddenly comes to mind wack me another response.

Cheers

Paul.

[penguin.ch]

Re: A rogue icon?

Merely a gut feeling, but does (temporarily) deactivating the desktop icons (as follows) change anything?

[Alt][F2] kcontrol > Desktop > Behaviour > Show Icons = "false"

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?

Oh well.

I cut and pasted your command line as not sure of syntax but got:

Could not run specified command. (Which I repeat below).

> Desktop > Behaviour > Show Icons = "false"

[penguin.ch]

Re: A rogue icon?

I cut and pasted your command line

Nice try

Actually, [Alt][F2] is the shortcut for the "Run Command" from the K Menu - where, in turn, "kcontrol" is the command to be issued to ...

In KDE's original Control Center, being launched thereby, I wanted you to navigate to the module "Desktop | Behaviour" and, therein, de-select the option "Show Icons" ...

O.k.?

[SheeEttin]

Re: A rogue icon?

Ah! Ah! I know this one!

It's not Show Icons. There's an option there called "Show hidden files". That's what you want to uncheck.

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?



Doh!

Well that's the problem with newbies!!

I flashed thru the commands and found that the 'show hidden files' option was ticked under the 'File Icons' tag - so problem solved.

Grateful for your help.

Paul.

[SheeEttin]

Re: A rogue icon?

No problem. I did the same thing on my first install.

[leadwt]

Re: A rogue icon?

SheeEttin,

You are right - I just pipped you on that!

Thanks to you too.

BFN.