Re: LUG: GNOME desktop: default icon placement - Sun, 16 May 2010 21:22:23 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: GNOME desktop: default icon placement

From : Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]>

Date : Sun, 16 May 2010 21:22:23 -0400

At 10:29pm -0400 Fri, 14 May 2010, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'd like the icons for new files downloaded or copied to the
> desktop to be placed on the right side of the screen instead of on
> the left side.

> How can I do this?

Without actually solving your problem, I'll point you to gconf-editor.
I believe that has *all* the little knobs and twiddle bits that may
(not) be exposed via a GUI interface. If it's an option, it's likely
somewhere in that fold of stuff.

As an example of one of the options available. If you want to
dynamically change a shortcut associated with a menu item for a program,
then enable this option

/ -> desktop -> gnome -> interface -> can_change_accels

When that checkbox is true, you can alter the predefined menu shortcuts.
For instance, one of my pet peeves is the default choice that F1 opens
the Gnome help interface for gnome-terminal. I can now open
gnome-terminal, click on the Help menu, and hover the mouse over the
Contents (shortcut: F1) menu item, and push the backspace key. Shortcut
removed. (Especially handy for when I have to work on the damn Thinkpad
keyboards. Love Thinkpads, not their keyboards.) Alternatively, you
could change the shortcut by typing, say "Ctrl+F1", instead of pushing
backspace.

The point is to look around those options. You might get lucky.

Cheers,

Kevin

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