New desktop icon in Gnome/Mandrake 8.0

[Dru Lee Parsec]

It seems that I use to be able to right click the desktop to add a new icon to my gnome desktop. I don't see this with the Mandrake 8.0 installation of Linux.

Is there a quick guide to adding desktop icons in Gnome somewhere? Or could someone give the quick and dirty steps to do this?

Thank you very much.

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

I'm not entirely sure about gnome.

Is there a folder in your home directory that Gnome uses to store it's desktop icons? (I know KDE uses /home/feztaa/Desktop to store my desktop icons).

If said directory exists, you could copy, move, or link files into this directory...

Or you could just try dragging a file onto your desktop.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I reinstalled and did NOT select nautilus as my icon manager this time. Now it works the way GNome was suppose to work.

[GonzoJohn]

Yeah, this is a Nautilus thing, though you can still drag items off the panel menu to the Nautilus desktop, there's no "right-clicking" to put a new icon on the desktop. You can still put programs in your .gnome-desktop directory and they'll show up on your Nautilus desktop.
:cool:

[ 10 July 2001: Message edited by: GonzoJohn ]