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by paul1149
Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:58 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Can't Rename desktop shortcuts
Replies: 6
Views: 6674

Re: Can't Rename desktop shortcuts

No, 'test.desktop' made no difference. The properties sheet also still shows it as blank after the attempt. Also, I have full permissions on this shortcut.
by paul1149
Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:02 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: Can't Rename desktop shortcuts
Replies: 6
Views: 6674

Re: Can't Rename desktop shortcuts

Thanks for your reply. I was unable to find the .desktop folder, but I was able to edit the shortcut via the context menu and selecting notepad. The Name field was blank, so I changed it to test. I reopened the shortcut in notepad and verified that the change had stuck: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-...
by paul1149
Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:55 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Can't Rename desktop shortcuts
Replies: 6
Views: 6674

Can't Rename desktop shortcuts

I have created a desktop shortcut pointing to an xml configuration file that I've been accessing a lot. It opens in gedit. Two strange things have occurred. First, when I named the shortcut with the target file's name, gedit would open the shortcut itself rather than the intended target. This, despi...
by paul1149
Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:48 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts not working
Replies: 6
Views: 11129

Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working

Thank you. Yes, I had picked that up from the xml file. Oddly, C-Escape did work fleetingly during one boot-up, but then stopped, and hasn't worked again. Also, I reinstalled lxde, thinking that maybe uninstalling lubuntu had broken something. Still not working. I have added some window commands to ...
by paul1149
Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:53 am
Forum: General Help
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts not working
Replies: 6
Views: 11129

Keyboard shortcuts not working

Hi, New to LXDE here, and really enjoying it on ubuntu 12.04. I like the configurability, style and lightness -a refreshing change from the backward trend. I've found the file .config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml, where keybindings are stored. I have two problems: First, there are several ways to open the sy...