OMG!!! Desktop items!!!

[IceBlade]

I was working away in Mandrake (sp?) and sudenly something odd happend (I'm still a n00b at this...)

I had suddenly gained desktop items!!!

:D

I know you're all thinking: what's odd about that?

Well... the other day I was searching for a way 2 get 2 my cdrom.
I searched and searched but din't find a way (mind that my Linux OS has just reached the age of 32 hours)
I spend 2.5 hours looking for a god damn way 2 get my files on that freakin' cd

And now all of a sudden I've got desktop items!!!
and I don't know why!!!

...isn't life full of little suprises? :D

[dom6791]

So how'd ya do it...?:)

[fancypiper]

I'll bet you ran nautilus.

[IceBlade]

...Still don't know why :)
opend nautilus, tried opening some file with Kwrite
(just for the fun of it, and mess it up good, 'cuase the damn thing
wouldn't work anyway :p ) the system froze up, and KABOOM...
...I had suddenly made desktop items :)

evn more odd is the fact that I had 4 shortcuts to 4 different CD drives

...and I only have 1 CD drive...

what can I say: cool...

[sharth]

i used to have something like that. you probably have gnome or kde installed and for some reason, it didn't start immedietly when you started x. Then your ran nautilus (or some other program) and the desktop popped up.

[Raptor24]

how do you install files? When i go to a package manager, I get confused by the sure number of packages and I dont know what any of them mean??!!

[IceBlade]

''how do you install files?''

:D w00t w00t

I know this one...

In everything you download, there is a file with the name ''install''
sow open up your file browser (like nautilus) and go to the
directory the file is located in, then click on the ''tools'' tab of your
file browser, select ''terminal'' and in the terminal you type:

''make''
''su''
then your root password
''make install''
and optional, you could type ''exit''

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by IceBlade
I was working away in Mandrake (sp?) and sudenly something odd happend (I'm still a n00b at this...)

I had suddenly gained desktop items!!!

:D

I know you're all thinking: what's odd about that?

Well... the other day I was searching for a way 2 get 2 my cdrom.
I searched and searched but din't find a way (mind that my Linux OS has just reached the age of 32 hours)
I spend 2.5 hours looking for a god damn way 2 get my files on that freakin' cd

And now all of a sudden I've got desktop items!!!
and I don't know why!!!

...isn't life full of little suprises? :D

Should we have the forum renamed to 'I don't know How I did it!!" ???

:D

[sharth]

you only have to do the make and make installs for source packages, not when you get programs in binary format btw.

[IceBlade]

Originally posted by sharth
you only have to do the make and make installs for source packages, not when you get programs in binary format btw.

thats what I did first, but I always got an error when I tried "make install" without being root...

[sharth]

The errors are probably do to beacue when you are not root, you don't have the permisions to edit / move some or all of the files.

[Raptor24]

do you have to be root in order to edit the files? or can you change the settings?

[sharth]

depends on who owns the file. Root can modify any file, normal users (usually) cant.

the chmod and chown programs allow you to edit the owner of the file and who can modify the file.

a short example of this would be trying to modify /etc/shadow as a normal user. The normal user can't view this file, let alone edit it. However, root will allow you to see the contents of the file and edit them as well. (it looks weird if these files are encrypted). This example only works if you use shadow passwords.

another example (that should work for everyone) is the /etc/passwd file. This file is viewable by anyone, but it can't be edited by anyone EXCEPT root.