Desktop Icon Placement

[Ian J]

I know there is a text file you can edit on the Pandora to amend where the icons appear on the desktop but after flashing to the new hotfix I lost my settings and can't for the life of me remember which file I need to edit.

 

[Null]

Can't remember which file it is either, but here's an alternate method to try if you've got some spare time on your hands. http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/55574-move-desktop-icons/page__p__898467&#entry898467

 

[Ian J]

That works but icons move around when the card are removed, when I edited the text file they popped back in the original location when the card was re-inserted.

 

[Null]

Is this the file that you were talking about? ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc

 

[Ian J]

Thats the one, what's the full path?

 

[Null]

/home/yourusername/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc

 

[Ian J]

Weird I can´t see that folder, I have show hidden files enabled.

 

[Null]

This path should be the correct one *crosses fingers* /home/yourusername/Applications/Settings/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc

 

[diligentcircle]

Ian J, "~" is just an alias for "/home/username".

 

[Ian J]

I´ve taken a screen grab of the location in case I forget in future.


Thats the one thank you.

This path should be the correct one *crosses fingers* /home/yourusername/Applications/Settings/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc

 

[Kosmos]

I edited the desktop files in /usr/share/applications to resort some things in the menu. Like moving grsync to Network.


When I reboot though I lose the settings. Am I editing the wrong files?

 

[sebt3]

I edited the desktop files in /usr/share/applications to resort some things in the menu. Like moving grsync to Network.


When I reboot though I lose the settings. Am I editing the wrong files?

These file are regenerated from pxml files every time an card is inserted (and at boot time). you need an ovr editor (minimenu)

 

[Kosmos]

These file are regenerated from pxml files every time an card is inserted (and at boot time). you need an ovr editor (minimenu)

I tried the OVR editor at the repo but it does nothing when I click the app to run it.


http://apps.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/viewapp.pl?/Other/runapp.inf


Any other OVR Editors? very much would like such an app.

 

[Ian J]

These file are regenerated from pxml files every time an card is inserted (and at boot time). you need an ovr editor (minimenu)

I tried the OVR editor at the repo but it does nothing when I click the app to run it.


http://apps.openpand...ther/runapp.inf


Any other OVR Editors? very much would like such an app.

I use the Mini menu to make changes these are then saved for use in XFCE.

 

[Kosmos]

Went to minimenu... And could not find any way to change the menu categories for the Apps in xfce.


Nothing there seemed able to change the default categories.


Qemu and GRsync should not be in system but in Emulators and Network, for example.


I edited the desktop files and like you said - they got "fixed" after reboot.


What next?