I just had to replace the SSD in my laptop, which for reasons that would
deserve a discussion thread of their own, I ended up having to do a
complete reinstall. Then I restored all my home directory files. So what I
have is a clean F31, but my own account from the old F30 system was
restored. I am using "GNOME on Xorg" as the desktop environment.

The problem I have is with Desktop files (in ~/Desktop). First I didn't see
them at all, then found with some Googling that I needed to turn off
display of the Trash icon, which now allows me to see the Desktop files.
There are two issues:

1) The desktop icons are visible, but the Icons=file line in them seems to
be ignored.
2) When I double click one, the Exec=command is executed, but it also opens
a full-screen window that I figured out is "gnome-games".

For #1, I first did a little research with dnf and discovered that I needed
to install the "comps-extras" package to bring back the files in
/usr/share/pixmaps/comps . But this did not fix the issue, even after I
restarted gnome-shell (with ALT-F2 and "r"). So I logged out and back in
again, but no joy. I did check to ensure that my account can read the
specified image files.

For #2, I would like to know how I can stop the execution of gnome-games.
With a little trial and error, I discovered that if I iconify the
gnome-games window the first time it comes up, then the Desktop icons
double-click-execute properly, but if I instead kill the gnome-games
window, then it pops up again next time I double-click an icon.

A sample Desktop file is below. Both issues occur whether or not I have the
leading "#!" line.

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=cobweb
Name[en_US]=cobweb
Exec=xterm -sb -T cobweb -bg forestgreen -fg white -e ssh -o 'FallBackToRsh
no' -X cobweb -l greg
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-logo-sprite.png
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
GenericName[en_US]=cobweb

Thanks for any pointers.

--Greg
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Reply via email to