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xDesktop Thread last updated on 2005-07-28 12:08:41

Posted by member 251308 on 2005-07-23 11:41:55

I'm trying to make my desktop just the way it was in WinXP. For this purpose I use xDesktop. But I can't use the xDesktopX & xDesktopY muleline to say where the icons may appear on my desktop.Need a little help here..It's possible to drag and drop them, but also drag them out of the screen.And this I don't want..

Posted by member 253856 on 2005-07-27 16:14:01 link

You can turn on Movable. Which is part of the commands. Then you can move them

Posted by member 251308 on 2005-07-28 09:23:12 link

thanks globex for your respons. But the problem is not to move them, because this is allready possible. The propblem is just to define where the icons may appear on the desktop. Therefor I need to define de xDesktopX en xDesktopY for the first icon. Which doesn't seem to work.

Posted by member 248213 on 2005-07-28 09:40:44 link

erm, I think you have to delete the xDesktop file (the special one that has the funny stuff in it... well thats not much help, but I dont use xDesktop so :p)

Then it will get "Auto" created next module load.
or something.

Read the docs ;)

Posted by member 251308 on 2005-07-28 10:01:53 link

Thanks, for the help guys. But I think I'll wait for the next version of xDesktop. Because it's a little buggy when asked for icons snapping to grid.

Posted by member 248213 on 2005-07-28 10:34:31 link

Well make sure you do a decent Feature Request/Bug report over at ls-universe.info ;)

There may even be a new version :D

Posted by member 1885 on 2005-07-28 11:02:08 link

Hm, I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to accomplish here (hard coded icon positions perhaps?), but I've been using xDesktop a bit and I've never had any major problems with it. These are my settings:

xdesktopautocreate true
xdesktopx 4
xdesktopy 4
xdesktopsnapto 4 4 76 76 38
xdesktopitemwidth 76
xdesktopitemheight 76
xdesktopspacingx 0
xdesktopspacingy 0
xdesktopdirection down
xdesktopwrapdirection right
xdesktopwrapcount $resolutiony-48/76$
xdesktopeasyfocus true
xdesktopfont "$mainfont$"
xdesktopfontcolor $color3$
xdesktopfontheight $mainfontsize$
xdesktopfontshadow true
xdesktopfontshadowcolor $color1$
xdesktopfontshadowx 1
xdesktopfontshadowy 1
xdesktopactivesaturationintensity 255
xdesktopactivehueintensity 96
xdesktopactivehuecolor $color5$

Posted by member 212670 on 2005-07-28 12:05:11 link

Along the lines of what fractal was saying...

Once you create your desktop, the icon's x/y are saved to a file (after a !recycle or !quit). At this point, changing your xDesktopx/y won't move your icons. You have to !quit litestep, go in to the file where the icon positions are stored, remove the lines, and restart litestep. If you have a command prompt, you can instead do !xDesktopCreate replace ".desktop" and that will recreate the desktop at the new x/y you have chosen.

Posted by member 251308 on 2005-07-28 12:08:41 link

Yes!!! Thanks guys, finally figured it out!
:) (Thanks to Wests' example)