Hello, can anyone help me with deleting or removing two icons - Online
Help & openSUSE. They are locked and I’m unsure how to proceed.
I am using the Gnome desktop if that helps.
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They are probably global files that are there for everybody’s use. I
think (untested) that they exist in /opt/gnome/share/dist/desktop-files/
as the various .desktop files. You’ll need to use sudo or otherwise
become powerful to move/delete them. I found these using the following
command:
find /opt/gnome -iname ‘*.desktop’
Good luck.
scouser73 wrote:
> Hello, can anyone help me with deleting or removing two icons - Online
> Help & openSUSE. They are locked and I’m unsure how to proceed.
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> I am using the Gnome desktop if that helps.
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I noticed that too! Its really annoying!!!
Even trying to move them causes a fuss…
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Right, I just logged in as root,
went to the folder:
/usr/share/dist/desktop-files
and it let me delete those two annoyances for good.
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Excellent… thank-you for posting back your results.
Good luck.
richyf89 wrote:
> Right, I just logged in as root,
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> went to the folder:
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> /usr/share/dist/desktop-files
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> and it let me delete those two annoyances for good.
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Once I’ve logged in as Root, what command do I use to get rid of them?
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‘rm’ is typically the command of choice, but you could also move the
files somewhere else just in case you get the wrong ones and want to put
them back.
Good luck.
scouser73 wrote:
> Once I’ve logged in as Root, what command do I use to get rid of them?
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Can someone actually paste the command for me?
I know it’s linux-uhus:/usr/share/dist # but what next after that?
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I just logged out and logged back on as root. Then browsed to the folder
and deleted them. I think its much easier to do that than work out the
terminal command…
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I finally managed to delete those pesky icons from the desktop by using
this command sudo chmod -R 777.
Thanks to eveyone who replied, much appreciated. rotfl!
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richyf89;1911788 Wrote:
> I noticed that too! Its really annoying!!!
And guess what - it’s even listed here: ‘Bugs:Most Annoying Bugs 11.1 -
openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.1)
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