How to hide desktop icons? Should I run as root?

[DaveS]

hmm. launchbar.pet has been renamed?
I tried it in wary 070, but it doesn't work.
In quirky and lucid, no problem.

Tried it in Wary, it works fine but after installation I had to run fixmenus, then restart jwm.

[Béèm]

hmm. launchbar.pet has been renamed?
I tried it in wary 070, but it doesn't work.
In quirky and lucid, no problem.

Tried it in Wary, it works fine but after installation I had to run fixmenus, then restart jwm.

IC, didn't do the fixmenus step.
Works now. Thanks.
I even made it vertical on the left side.

[Béèm]

hmm. launchbar.pet has been renamed?
I tried it in wary 070, but it doesn't work.
In quirky and lucid, no problem.

No Beem, launchbar.pet (for Lucid) is here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 979#440979

Not tried with Wary. Will see what works now.......

Sorry for the confusion, but the picture looks the same as for launchbar.
Will have to try Icontray also then.

[Béèm]

hmm. launchbar.pet has been renamed?
I tried it in wary 070, but it doesn't work.
In quirky and lucid, no problem.

No Beem, launchbar.pet (for Lucid) is here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 979#440979

Not tried with Wary. Will see what works now.......

Sorry for the confusion, but the picture looks the same as for launchbar.
Will have to try Icontray also then.

Well, I probably am missing something obvious.
Tried Icontray and the way of implementing seems to look exactly the same as launchbar.

The final point is, they both are valid and useful utilities and should be standard in any puppy.

[musher0]

Hello, "Windows XP"

Here's another easy way to change or remove the icons on the ROX desktop:

First, bring up a console and type:

1) cd /root/Choices/ROX-Filer

2) cp PuppyPin PuppyPin.bak

Once you've got your back-up, do as PizzasGood suggests above, i.e. remove the icons you don't want. by right-clicking, etc.

If you don't like the result, you can recopy your back-up as the original PuppyPin and start over.

Once you've finished, make another back-up of the new PuppyPin, perhaps under the name PuppyPin.personal. That's because the original PuppyPin has the bad habit of re-appearing every time you load a new *.sfs file in your your Puppy (any Puppy/Quirky/Wary, actually...). It's annoying, but what can we do!

That way, if you load say, openoffice.sfs -- or "whatever.sfs", you simply go back to /root/Choices/ROX-Filer and recopy your PuppyPin-personal to PuppyPin. Then, again in console, type

rox -p=/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin

and your desktop comes back as you designed it.

If you want to keep some icons but still want a "clean" desktop, consider having a ROX bar on one of the sides of the screen. For ex., typing

rox -t=topbar

in a console will create a ROX bar on top of the screen.

rox -r=rightbar

will create a ROX bar at the right of the screen.

(For the record, the code letters are -l for a left bar, and -b for a bottom bar.)

You can then drag the icons you need to one of those bars and remove them as previously explained from the main desktop area.

I hope this helps!

[mill0001]

See here,
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59924
for an easy way to hide drive icons.