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bluesman2333

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Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 8

Add/Remove Desktop Icons

I discovered that if I open Thunar and go to usr/bin, I can right click an icon to send that item (as a link) to the desktop. This can be done as the user. However, when I did that with Top, I discovered that it wouldn't open. As it turns out, it won't open if I click it from the original location either. So now I want to remove it from the desktop. When I right click the desktop icon so I can remove it, delete is grayed out.

-> How do I get the right click menu to show delete?

I thought I might need to do it as root. However, I cannot login as root at the GUI login. I assumed that the username was root  and the password was the same as the user, it works with sudo.

-> How do I log in as root?

Thank You for any help you can give.

version 4.3.99.1 (Xfce 4.4 BETA2)

SimonJ

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From: Perth

Registered: 2006-09-06

Posts: 135

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Re: Add/Remove Desktop Icons

Logging in as root is not a good idea, and it appears unnecessary.

Open a terminal and type
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cd Desktop
ls
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You will see a list of the links you have made.

For each link you wish to delete type
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rm <linkname>
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This allows it to be removed (rm).

Obviously you should be able to right click but I don't know why it's greyed out, I tried here and it's exactly as you described.

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bluesman2333

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Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 8

Re: Add/Remove Desktop Icons

Thanks! BTW, this isn't my first barbecue, just my first experience with XFce.

I know about the pitfalls with root. On a regular distro. ie non Ubuntu based, it's no problem logging in as root.