[Sussex] Mandriva Gnome Desktop

[Steve Dobson]

Peter

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:20 +0100, Peter Moule wrote:
> In PCLinux/ KDE, and in Mandriva/KDE you can right click on the desktop 
> and arrange the alphabetically, grid and vertically / horizontally.  How 
> can you do this with GNOME - it only seems to have keep aligned on right 
> click?  Full answers please as we are still learning on GUI.

There are some big differences between KDE and Gnome.  On of the
criticisms of Gnome is that it is not as configurable as KDE.  While I
am not certain I don't think you can arrange the icons in any other way
that using the "Clean Up by Name" option on the desktop menu.

> The reason I need to know this is in case another archive is unpacked to 
> the desk top without a folder.  The items were scattered all over the 
> desktop and we "lost" a couple which seem to have disappeared  off the 
> desktop.  I know this because I checked the contents of the archive 
> against what was on the desktop.

When unpacking an archive it is best to create a new folder first and
then unpack into that just to be sure.

Steve
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Steve Dobson

MIT:
The Georgia Tech of the North

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