the files in root/desktop don't appear on the desktop
 

Hello,
I'm running Xenial puppy.
why can't I see files in root/desktop on the desktop? All files I drop on the desktop are just links to the original place and no copies. the files in root/desktop don't appear on the desktop.
I would like to have a "normal" desktop with real files. How to?

Thanks for answers.

Matthias

I thought it was /root/Desktop, not /root/desktop. Linux is fussy about such matters.

You shouldn't be running X as root as a rule

/root/Desktop
 

hello buisness_kid,

you're right. It's /root/Desktop.

To your second point: In puppy linux there is only one possible user, the standard is to login as root.

thanks, Matthias

is it using the rox filer & desktop? verable software, my respect. compared to current standards it will require some manual-reading and paradigm-changing.

There is the program 'useradd'. Sure they only set up one user. But it's only a matter of time before you do something like 'rm -rf *' and then realize you're in the wrong directory.

@ matthiasz:-

Puppy, in 'standard' trim, running Rox-filer & the JWM window manager, doesn't make use of the /Desktop directory. All icons on the 'desktop' (which is, in fact, a 'pinboard') are, as you've found, direct links to other locations.

Puppy was originally built this way for lightness, and to be as easy on the resources of limited hardware as possible. It's perfectly possible, if you wish, to install the XFCE or even KDE desktop environments.....but if you do that (KDE especially), then you're rather getting away from the 'spirit' of Puppy, and may just as well go for a more conventional Linux distro instead.

You may be interested in the 'X'-series Puppies, by rg66. These use the XFCE desktop environment instead of the JWM/Rox-filer 'pinboard' combo. You can find them here:-

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/

Or, you may find peebee's LXPup series to be more to your liking. These are based around the LXDE desktop instead. They can be found here:-

http://lx-pup.weebly.com/downloads.html

Puppy's biggest selling-point has always been flexibility, despite being intended for low-resource hardware.

That's an understandable assertion. But the majority of 'Puppy' users tend to spend as little time in the terminal as possible; most members tend to be more GUI-oriented than 'traditional' Linux users, who do a lot of stuff in the terminal. It's just the 'Puppy' way.


Mike. :hattip:

Hello Mike,
thanks a lot for your answer. I like the xenial-puppy (rox-filer +JWM) very much, because its fast on slow machines, I wont change the environment. But there is no chance to get rid of the pinboard, is that right? And so I have to live with that pinboard, right?

thanks, Matthias

the pinboard can be disabled.
means you only have a wallpaper on your desktop.

Or some malware nukes your install because the browser you are in is running as root...