floppy and cd-rom desktop icons in Red Hat 7.3

glock19 · 08-02-2002, 11:58 PM

With Red Hat 7.3 using KDE, there are no floppy and CD-ROM icons on my Desktop.

I know in Red Hat 7.2 there were these icons, and I would just left-click on the icon and it would automatically mount the drive and bring up a filesystem browser to view the contents. When I was done, I would just right-click on select "Unmount".

But like I said, in Red Hat 7.3 these icons aren't on my Desktop at all. Does anyone know what the issue is? Thanks.

naz · 08-03-2002, 12:20 AM

IIRC, you can add these icons to your KDE desktop by rightclicking on the desktop and adding these items by yourself. I can't recall exactly, but it may also be possible to add these icons by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting (something similar to) default icons.

naz

lynch · 08-03-2002, 05:13 AM

Try this:
R-click blank area of desktop and select Create New from the menu.You should see options for cd-rom device and floppy device.
When you choose,say,cd-rom device,a dialog box with tabs will appear-choose the device tab and click on the drop-down menu arrow next to device to choose which cd-rom you want a desktop icon for.
That should do it.HTH
lynch