Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:01:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > I am not aware of an analogous concept in GNOME or others... Looks much > > a Microsoft way, forcing users to have something on the desktop that's > > not theirs and what they can not remove. > > Now, I am not familiar with that either, b

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread H.S.
Hi, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > Hello, > > This should do the trick: > > # for dir in /home/*; do ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/instructions.pdf > $dir/Desktop/ > > Of course, you may want to make sure that /home/* matches only real home > directories (there may be /home/lost+found if you have

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread H.S.
Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all >> current user's Gnome desktops? >> >> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link >> to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I a

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:19 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all > current user's Gnome desktops? > > More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link > to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. [...] Hello, This should d

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all current user's Gnome desktops? More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file on a ce

desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-22 Thread H.S.
Hello, Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all current user's Gnome desktops? More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file on a central location, for example in /usr/local