Icons on desktop

[Guest]

How can I get "My Computer" icon on my desktop.
While searching web I found help for Trash icon.
For Home folder I just created a "Link to Location".
but I was not able to figure out anything abt My Computer icon.

[dibl]

Re: Icons on desktop

Which operating system are we talking about here

[Guest]

Re: Icons on desktop

Fiesty Fawn.

I know MY computer might not be the right term, but u know what I'm talking about.

[mistrynitesh]

Re: Icons on desktop

If you are referring to the disk drives on your computer (as in sda1, sda5, floppy, cdrom, etc.), then you may create a 'link to location' typing "/media" in the location field while creating location.
There is also a "My Computer" icon if you want it for the link that you create

[MepisReign]

Re: Icons on desktop

Oh, the Window$ "vice"....

:P

[Guest]

Re: Icons on desktop

Creating a link to "/media", is only going to display CD and DVD rom and any external media if mounted.

Where as I was also looking for the Hard disk to be in there.

I tried creating a link to hda in media folder, it didn't work.

Is it possible to become a root create a link to Hard disk in the media folder. If yes then what exactly that link should point to (to which file/folder)?

[myxal]

Re: Icons on desktop

Creating a link to "/media", is only going to display CD and DVD rom and any external media if mounted...

What other drives do you have? I have my partitions (which are not used by linux as system disks) also mounted in the media folder. Then there's a linux partition itself, the root directory...
To check what partitions are available and where (if) they are mounted, just type "mount" into console. If you find that some of your partitions aren't mounted, edit /etc/fstab/

Is it possible to become a root create a link to Hard disk in the media folder. If yes then what exactly that link should point to (to which file/folder)?

It should be possible... Not sure if you can link to root folder, but creating symlinks in console is done by the "ln -s" command. (I think, am not at my PC right now )

[Guest]

Re: Icons on desktop

I got 40Gb HD which is entirely used by Kubuntu and all the partitions are mounted.

Most of you might have used Ubuntu.
Ubuntu (Gnome in particular) provides a My Computer icon on desktop (not there by default in ubuntu).

I'm not too sure about what all is in there but as far as I remember, there you can see mounted hard drive along with the other media.

Isn't there anything like that in KDE.

it is not like I'm in desperate need of it, just for the shake of knowledge and it might also come handy some time.

[opie]

Re: Icons on desktop

rather than /media, which is the media folder, I think you want
media:/

For example try:

konqueror media:/

[Guest]

Re: Icons on desktop

konqueror media:/

Yup this is what I was looking for but how can I get it on the desktop?

[Rog131]

Re: Icons on desktop

Maybe this:

Right click desktop and
Create New > Link to Application:

Choose proper name and icon

Application tab
Command: konqueror media:/

or
Command: konqueror webbrowsing media:/

[Guest]

Re: Icons on desktop

It worked thanks to all.