Desktop icons do nothing

I’m new to openSUSE and just installed a virtual machine of it on my
Mac.

I’m noticing that the icons on the desktop for the Trash, Firefox,
Office and others don’t do anything when they are double-clicked.
Instead they are highlighted with some options surrounding them which
don’t appear to do a whole lot, and when highlighted they can be moved
across the desktop. Right now the only way I can launch an application
is from the launcher in the lower left corner of the screen. I’d sure
like to know what I’m doing wrong here! Thanks.


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jimmycoy;1901552 Wrote:
> I’m new to openSUSE and just installed a virtual machine of it on my
> Mac.
>
> I’m noticing that the icons on the desktop for the Trash, Firefox,
> Office and others don’t do anything when they are double-clicked.
> Instead they are highlighted with some options surrounding them which
> don’t appear to do a whole lot, and when highlighted they can be moved
> across the desktop. Right now the only way I can launch an application
> is from the launcher in the lower left corner of the screen. I’d sure
> like to know what I’m doing wrong here! Thanks.

It is long shot but got to a icon wright click on the mouse ask
for properties and give us the out come
One left click should be enough to launch a application
double click tha you launch two times
dobby9


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Firstly it’s a single click in Linux to run/open.
If you right click on the desktop and choose lock widgets they should
work.

Geoff
jimmycoy;1901552 Wrote:
> I’m new to openSUSE and just installed a virtual machine of it on my
> Mac.
>
> I’m noticing that the icons on the desktop for the Trash, Firefox,
> Office and others don’t do anything when they are double-clicked.
> Instead they are highlighted with some options surrounding them which
> don’t appear to do a whole lot, and when highlighted they can be moved
> across the desktop. Right now the only way I can launch an application
> is from the launcher in the lower left corner of the screen. I’d sure
> like to know what I’m doing wrong here! Thanks.


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Actually it’s only a single-click to open if the environment is set to
use single-clicks to open. That is not always the case.

Good luck.

geoffro wrote:
> Firstly it’s a single click in Linux to run/open.
> If you right click on the desktop and choose lock widgets they should
> work.
>
> Geoff
> jimmycoy;1901552 Wrote:
>> I’m new to openSUSE and just installed a virtual machine of it on my
>> Mac.
>>
>> I’m noticing that the icons on the desktop for the Trash, Firefox,
>> Office and others don’t do anything when they are double-clicked.
>> Instead they are highlighted with some options surrounding them which
>> don’t appear to do a whole lot, and when highlighted they can be moved
>> across the desktop. Right now the only way I can launch an application
>> is from the launcher in the lower left corner of the screen. I’d sure
>> like to know what I’m doing wrong here! Thanks.
>
>
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Thanks to all for your help. All is well now.


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