No desktop icons, KDE?

Need help with your Linux distro? All questions are good - not all answers are -but we try

Moderator: jkerr82508

Post Reply
User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:
Contact dedanna1029

No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby dedanna1029 » 02 May 2012, 03:37

Linux Mint 12. It seems that I'm missing something in getting the computer, home, network, etc. icons to show on the desktop. I followed this old tutorial on how to do it, but had to translate some of the commands to click on for the version of KDE I'm on - 4.7.4 - because things weren't exactly as they are in that tutorial.

Got that sorted, got things down, got switched to folder view, evidenced in this screenshot:

Image

However, I clearly have no desktop icons :( :

Image

Any clue what's wrong?

Thanks.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html
Top
User avatar
viking60
Über-Berserk
Posts: 9351
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 16:34

Re: No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby viking60 » 02 May 2012, 06:54

I will leave this to the Gurus since I have foreign text.
I have the desktop view with a network plasma thing. I just right click on the desktop and add it.
Image
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Top
User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:
Contact dedanna1029

Re: No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby dedanna1029 » 02 May 2012, 23:03

OK, I'll check out the right-click menu more thoroughly when I get home. Hopefully, something will be there that I haven't seen to bring more light to this, although I've already checked it out. Thanks.

Edit: Wait. viking, is that a KDE stock background, or one of your own? I noticed that when I switched to that photo you see on the desktop above... that's when the icons didn't want to be visible, no matter what I did. I don't understand how that could make that difference, though.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html
Top
User avatar
viking60
Über-Berserk
Posts: 9351
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 16:34

Re: No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby viking60 » 02 May 2012, 23:10

All KDE backgrounds in a slideshow.
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Top
User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:
Contact dedanna1029

Re: No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby dedanna1029 » 02 May 2012, 23:16

Dang. OK, thanks.
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html
Top
User avatar
dedanna1029
Sound-Berserk
Posts: 8780
Joined: 14 Mar 2010, 20:29
Contact:
Contact dedanna1029

Re: No desktop icons, KDE?

Postby dedanna1029 » 09 May 2012, 01:01

HHMMM...

Image
I'd rather be a free person who fears terrorists, than be a "safe" person who fears the government.
No gods, no masters.
"A druid is by nature anarchistic, that is, submits to no one."
http://uk.druidcollege.org/faqs.html
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Help”