Re: Rogue Desktop Icon

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 15:54, Donald Henson wrote:
> I'm posting to two lists because I'm not sure where the problem resides.
> 
> (SuSe Linux 9.0 Pro, Gnome 2.2.2, Nautilus 2.2.4)
> 
> Early in my newbie days, I created a desktop launcher that opened my
> home directory in Nautilus. I recently installed a beta version of
> AbiWord (2.1.0). Afterwards, whenever I clicked on the icon, AbiWord
> opened instead of a Nautilus window. I tried various methods to correct
> this but eventually gave up and created a new launcher. I then attempted
> to delete the old launcher but I can't get the "Move to Trash" menu item
> to become active. It's grayed out. When I click on the rogue icon, I get
> an error message, "The Media view encountered an error while starting
> up." (If anyone has any thoughts on the above, I'd appreciate hearing
> them but that's not the question.) My real question is how can I get rid
> of this launcher? I figure that root can do it but I'm not sure where to
> look or what to delete. Any assistance will be appreciated.
> 
> Don Henson
> 
> 

first you need to find out the name  of the launcher

do ls -l .gnome-desktop (or I think .gnome2/desktop/launchers from
memory)

find the the right file, then rm it

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