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I may have misunderstood the question.<br>
But.<br>
go to System<br>
Preferences <br>
File management<br>
and view tab allows you to arrange by a number of criteria.<br>
Is that what you were after?<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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<-----Original Message-----> <br>
>From: Desmond Armstrong [desmond.armstrong@gmail.com]<br>
>Sent: 7/6/2008 6:57:18 PM<br>
>To: sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Mandriva Gnome Desktop<br>
><br>
>With the full version of Mandriva PWP 2008.1 things do go pretty well <br>
>but, as with all distros there are little issues and you can contribute.<br>
>><br>
>> In PCLinux/ KDE, and in Mandriva/KDE you can right click on the <br>
>> desktop and arrange the alphabetically, grid and vertically / <br>
>> horizontally. How can you do this with GNOME - it only seems to have <br>
>> keep aligned on right click? Full answers please as we are still <br>
>> learning on GUI.<br>
>><br>
>right click on desktop, not on an icon and you can auto arrange.<br>
>You may wish also to sign up at www.gnome.org and put questions there.<br>
><br>
>> The reason I need to know this is in case another archive is unpacked <br>
>> to the desk top without a folder. The items were scattered all over <br>
>> the desktop and we "lost" a couple which seem to have disappeared off <br>
>> the desktop. I know this because I checked the contents of the <br>
>> archive against what was on the desktop.<br>
>I have learnt this as well, so create folder, put the archive file in <br>
>there and then all the bits stay, by default in that folder.<br>
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