Re: Rogue Desktop Icon

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 10:07, mike wrote:
> 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
> 
That worked. Thanks.

Don Henson