[Sussex] Mandriva Gnome Desktop

[paul jones]

I may have misunderstood the question.
But.
go to System
Preferences 
File management
and view tab allows you to arrange by a number of criteria.
Is that what you were after?

Paul

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Desmond Armstrong [desmond.armstrong at gmail.com]
>Sent: 7/6/2008 6:57:18 PM
>To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Mandriva Gnome Desktop
>
>With the full version of Mandriva PWP 2008.1 things do go pretty well 
>but, as with all distros there are little issues and you can
contribute.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>right click on desktop, not on an icon and you can auto arrange.
>You may wish also to sign up at www.gnome.org and put questions there.
>
>> 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.
>I have learnt this as well, so create folder, put the archive file in 
>there and then all the bits stay, by default in that folder.
>
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