Re: Gnewbie questions
- From: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- To: "Eric W. Sink" <eric abisource com>
- cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Gnewbie questions
- Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 23:35:01 +0800 (WST)
To create hyperlink icons on the desktop, drag a link, or the bookmark
picture between the words Bookmarks and Location on the netscape toolbar
to the desktop. A link should be created on the desktop. You can also
drag links from netscape onto the panel to create a launcher button for
the page.
James.
--
Email: james@daa.com.au
WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Eric W. Sink wrote:
> GNOME looks cool. I just installed RH6 on my desktop system
> and I'm favorably impressed.
>
> However, two things are driving me nuts:
>
> 1. There are icons preinstalled on my desktop which launch
> URLs (www.redhat.com, for example). This behavior is much
> like the Internet shortcuts available in Windoze, but:
>
> How do I create my own? I have looked EVERYWHERE I could
> think of. They appear to be stored in ~/.gnome-desktop and
> referenced in a file called metadata.db in ~/.gnome but
> I can't figure out how to make them work. I added a file
> to ~/.gnome-desktop which used a format just like the
> existing ones there (RHcom), and did a Rescan. The resulting
> icon doesn't seem to know that it's a URL.
>
> 2. When I click on one of the windows listed in the task list
> in the pager in the panel at the bottom of my screen, I
> keep expecting that window to be raised and receive the
> focus. It doesn't. Here again, I spent a non-trivial
> amount of time looking for an answer to this problem, and
> I can't find it. I played with all of the settings for
> enlightenment, and nothing mattered. Any clues?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers to relevant info about these
> two problems.
>
> BTW, is the archive of this email list available on the web
> somewhere? The list server's way of accessing the archive is
> incredibly tedious:
>
> egrep -i focus latest/*
> BEGIN---------------cut here------------------
> ../.bin/arch_retrieve: /bin/nice: Argument list too long
> END-----------------cut here------------------
>
> --
> Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
> eric@abisource.com
>
>
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