[ale] Next CentOS-7.0 question

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Things like this are the reason I jumped ship to XFCE quite a while back.  I would consider not being able to store files on the desktop an absolute deal breaker.  My desktop looks like an early 90s Mac user's desktop...lol  I pretty much use my desktop as my default storage location for everything.  Everyone who sits down at my computer hates it...and I get told that it is a bad habit...but like most bad habits, I'm not going to stop!

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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [jim.kinney at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Next CentOS-7.0 question

you don't.

The desktop concept as a place to store crap has been dropped. Take all the
stuff you used to leave uncategorized on your desktop and file them
someplace else.

That said, there _is_ a way to display your ~/Desktop folder on the
desktop: install gnome tweak tool and enable the option through Gnome Tweak
Tool -> Desktop -> Have File Manager Handle the Desktop.

sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool


Those are for Fedora 19. Not sure if gnome-tweak-tool exists for CentOS7
yet.



On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:28 PM, <kilpatms at comcast.net> wrote:

> run in terminal:  cp /backup/file  /home/me/Desktop
> and the file is moved to the correct directory.
>
> But . . . .
>
> It doesn't show up on the desktop! It's there, according to the terminal
> and an ls command.
>
> It's also there via the GUI if I open a file manager and look at
> /me/Desktop.
>
> So how do I get the icons (and files) to show up on the actual desktop?
>
> Sean
>
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