how to display my own Desktop on kubuntu 11.04??

yeayu · 12-27-2011, 11:11 AM

Hello everyone,
I almost never use GUI mode on my pc. Yesterday I installed kubuntu 11.04 (graphical mode enabled) on my laptop and it's pretty cool,but from CLI when I create a normal file with touch/nano/kate... on my Desktop I can't see it on my desktop but it's there from my shell, also from Dolphin. Which is going on?
thank you

note: It should be new KDE feature, doesn't it?

JimBrewster · 12-27-2011, 11:28 AM

Are you finding it (from your shell) in ~/ (your home directory) or ~/Desktop/ ?

Try

Code:

touch ~/Desktop/test.txt

yeayu · 12-27-2011, 11:39 AM

Of course in ~/Desktop/, it's to say: /home/myuser/Desktop

:s ..

eSelix · 12-27-2011, 02:17 PM

In plasma you can drag and drop files on desktop (but this configuration is stored somewhere in not easy editable file) or you can install widget "FolderView". It is in repositories as "plasma-widget-folderview" - and create it instance on desktop. You can configure it for any directory, by default it display contents of "~/Desktop". You can change look, filter files by filetype, etc.

yeayu · 12-27-2011, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eSelix

In plasma you can drag and drop files on desktop (but this configuration is stored somewhere in not easy editable file) or you can install widget "FolderView". It is in repositories as "plasma-widget-folderview" - and create it instance on desktop. You can configure it for any directory, by default it display contents of "~/Desktop". You can change look, filter files by filetype, etc.

Is it normal that behaviour?
I can drag & drop files to my Desktop but if I look for it after that typing (for example):
[code]
find / -iname "test"
[\code]
I only find one of them on my home/myuser/Desktop, not both (original and copy one)...

yeayu · 12-28-2011, 04:41 AM

Finally I'll install debian or centOS...

eSelix · 12-28-2011, 05:53 AM

Yes, this is normal behavior in KDE. Someone who project this (or community), considered that creating icons for files on Desktop is obsolete, better is use a Desktop for various widgets. But of course you can do this with a widget I mentioned ealier "FolderView".

About draging files to Desktop - you mean "directory ~/Desktop"? Because I mean your virtual, on screen desktop. First action could create a new copy of file, but second make a shortcut to it, so by editing this file, you edit the orginal.

Quote:

Finally I'll install debian or centOS...

This is not depended on used distribution. It is feature of Plasma Desktop - part of KDE. You can use other desktop environments if you wish, for example GNOME (I do not remember how it desktop works), LXDE, etc. without uninstalling Kubuntu.

yeayu · 12-28-2011, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eSelix

Yes, this is normal behavior in KDE. Someone who project this (or community), considered that creating icons for files on Desktop is obsolete, better is use a Desktop for various widgets. But of course you can do this with a widget I mentioned ealier "FolderView".
About draging files to Desktop - you mean "directory ~/Desktop"? Because I mean your virtual, on screen desktop. First action could create a new copy of file, but second make a shortcut to it, so by editing this file, you edit the orginal.
This is not depended on used distribution. It is feature of Plasma Desktop - part of KDE. You can use other desktop environments if you wish, for example GNOME (I do not remember how it desktop works), LXDE, etc. without uninstalling Kubuntu.

I know I can use other desktop environment without uninstall it, but I was reading about new versions of *ubuntu with unity desktop and so on...and I prefer old desktop environment. (centOS or Debian could be a good solution for me)
Thank you.