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Where to associate desktop icons with programs with Red Hat 9.0
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| Videotron.ca 2006-11-30, 7:16 pm |
| Here is my problem, I installed Red Hat 9.0 Personal Desktop. Everything
went well, until I wanted to associate a desktop icon such as a CD ROM with
a DVD Player(Ogle). When I did this the trash Icon and Home follder when
click on open the DVD program. I no longer could view the contents of the
trash. Does anyone know what file or program can help me get back to normal.
Or is there a progrma or file to associate a desktop icon to a program.
example /etc/... file?
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| General Schvantzkoph 2006-12-01, 1:13 pm |
| On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:13:32 -0500, Videotron.ca wrote:
> Here is my problem, I installed Red Hat 9.0 Personal Desktop. Everything
> went well, until I wanted to associate a desktop icon such as a CD ROM with
> a DVD Player(Ogle). When I did this the trash Icon and Home follder when
> click on open the DVD program. I no longer could view the contents of the
> trash. Does anyone know what file or program can help me get back to normal.
> Or is there a progrma or file to associate a desktop icon to a program.
> example /etc/... file?
Why did you install RH9? RH9 has been obsolete for years, you should
download Fedora Core 6 and install that. You're not going to get much help
asking a RH9 question, most people on this group are running a recent
version of Fedora or RHEL. There have been huge strides on the Linux
desktop since RH9 came out, you'll be much happier with FC5 or FC6.
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| Robert Heiling 2006-12-01, 1:13 pm |
| General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:13:32 -0500, Videotron.ca wrote:
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> Why did you install RH9? RH9 has been obsolete for years, you should
> download Fedora Core 6 and install that. You're not going to get much help
> asking a RH9 question, most people on this group are running a recent
> version of Fedora or RHEL. There have been huge strides on the Linux
> desktop since RH9 came out, you'll be much happier with FC5 or FC6.
Does that mean you don't know the answer to his question?
Bob
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| General Schvantzkoph 2006-12-01, 7:14 pm |
| On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:34:05 -0800, Robert Heiling wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> Does that mean you don't know the answer to his question?
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> Bob
I doubt that anyone knows, he's using a very old release. RH9 had Gnome 1.0
which has long since been superseded. Gnome 1.0 was primitive by
comparison with the current version of Gnome and undoubtedly it would have
been very buggy because it was brand new. It's a waste of the OP's time
and ours trying to make RH9 work. He gives the impression that he just
installed RH9, which means that he has no reason to stick with it. FC6 is
free so there is no reason not to download it and install it. It will
probably fix all of his problems, and if it doesn't there will be a lot
more people who have FC6 sitting in front of them who can try to reproduce
his problem on their systems.
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| Robert Heiling 2006-12-01, 7:14 pm |
| General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:34:05 -0800, Robert Heiling wrote:
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> I doubt that anyone knows,
I'll take that as a yes, that you don't know the answer.
> he's using a very old release. RH9 had Gnome 1.0
> which has long since been superseded. Gnome 1.0 was primitive by
> comparison with the current version of Gnome and undoubtedly it would have
> been very buggy because it was brand new. It's a waste of the OP's time
> and ours trying to make RH9 work. He gives the impression that he just
> installed RH9, which means that he has no reason to stick with it. FC6 is
> free so there is no reason not to download it and install it. It will
> probably fix all of his problems, and if it doesn't there will be a lot
> more people who have FC6 sitting in front of them who can try to reproduce
> his problem on their systems.
You know a lot more about his wishes and circumstances than I do then. You gave
the same unwelcome response to me a number of months ago when I posed a question
about RH9 and I keep seeing this repeated post like it was on an autoresponder.
It _does_ get tiresome.
All you know is that he has the installation CD's for RH9 in hand and my guess
is that he is mainly trying out linux. He could also possibly be in the
situation I was a year ago when I had a FC4 DVD in hand, but could find no way
to get that kernel to boot and therefore went back to RH9. But I doubt that and
figure that he might be saving himself the lengthy download and burn of FC6 just
to fool around with linux a bit before making further decisions.
But that's all merely my conjecture. It would be refreshing though, to see
replies that were directed at the questions that were asked, not at ones that
weren't asked and which also seem to draw a lot of "me too"'s.
Bob
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| General Schvantzkoph 2006-12-01, 7:14 pm |
| On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:02:05 -0800, Robert Heiling wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
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> I'll take that as a yes, that you don't know the answer.
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> You know a lot more about his wishes and circumstances than I do then. You gave
> the same unwelcome response to me a number of months ago when I posed a question
> about RH9 and I keep seeing this repeated post like it was on an autoresponder.
> It _does_ get tiresome.
>
> All you know is that he has the installation CD's for RH9 in hand and my guess
> is that he is mainly trying out linux. He could also possibly be in the
> situation I was a year ago when I had a FC4 DVD in hand, but could find no way
> to get that kernel to boot and therefore went back to RH9. But I doubt that and
> figure that he might be saving himself the lengthy download and burn of FC6 just
> to fool around with linux a bit before making further decisions.
>
> But that's all merely my conjecture. It would be refreshing though, to see
> replies that were directed at the questions that were asked, not at ones that
> weren't asked and which also seem to draw a lot of "me too"'s.
>
> Bob
About once a week some newbie asks a question about RH9 and I give them
the same response, use the latest Fedora. I don't know where all of these
RH9 CDs are coming from, they should all have been turned into drink
coasters years ago. There is this huge universe of good current Linux
distros that are free for the taking. All you have to do is download an
ISO. If you don't have a broadband line you can always buy a set of CDs or
DVDs from http://www.linuxcentral.com, the cost is barely more than the
price of postage. I think it's insane to be installing RH9 in 2006 when
there are so many better distros available. If you don't like Fedora, then
there is Ubuntu, Mandriva, SUSE, DSL, CentOS, one of them should work fine
for you. A current distro can handle modern hardware, does a much better
job of configuring itself, has vastly improved versions of Gnome and KDE,
has better applications, is patchable, and importantly has a large number
of people who are using the distro now.
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| Ed Hurst 2006-12-03, 7:14 pm |
| Videotron.ca wrote:
> Here is my problem, I installed Red Hat 9.0 Personal Desktop. Everything
> went well, until I wanted to associate a desktop icon such as a CD ROM with
> a DVD Player(Ogle). When I did this the trash Icon and Home follder when
> click on open the DVD program. I no longer could view the contents of the
> trash. Does anyone know what file or program can help me get back to normal.
> Or is there a progrma or file to associate a desktop icon to a program.
> example /etc/... file?
>
I can only guess what your level of experience is, so don't be insulted
if I miss the target. First, make sure you've visited this website:
http://fedoralegacy.org/
Learn as much as you can about updating to the latest bug fixes and so
forth:
http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/
Once you've done a full update, please check to see if your problem has
been solved by bug fixes. I'm betting that will happen.
Now, after all that, I believe I can get you started by explaining that
the desktop icons when you first start are fed to you from a common set
given to everyone. If you create your own, they are supposed to be found
as files in your home directory, in a folder called "Desktop." Each of
them is a simple text file, with various configuration parameters. I
don't recall whether the standard set is also found there or not -- they
are not in later versions of GNOME.
You are running GNOME 2.2, I believe. The format for these desktop icons
would be more or less the same as the later versions of GNOME. Since I
don't use GNOME, I won't be much specific help, but I do have some idea
how they work. For example, the file for your Trash icon goes like this:
------------
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Name=Trash
----------- [snip]
Below that is the name "Trash" in a couple dozen other languages. The
nature of this icon is to link to a place in the file system, so the
automatic function is to open a file manager window. If it were an
application, there would be a command name.
The quickest path to recovery would be to delete your "Desktop" folder
and logout. When you log back in, it should replace the missing folder
automatically.
--
Ed Hurst
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