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Re: (?) Changing the view of desktop

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From: Peter Schepers
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:01
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In article <1993Jan22.223614.29185@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.143649.2688@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
>>This may sound silly. But, how can I change the appearance of
>>workplace shell from one view to another? For normal folders,
>>just OPEN->SETUP->MENU->.. But this doesn't work for WPS.
>>Thanks for any help!
>
>Bring up the Window List (CTRL-ESC), click on the Desktop entry with
>mouse button two, then select Open -> (your preferred view).  You can
>keep this view on the desktop -- or even maximize it -- when you
>shutdown.  Unless you've disabled automatic application restart, it
>will come back up when you restart.
>

I found this does not work. What I have to do is click on the DESKTOP (not
desktop in the task list) and select my view style. There is no 'OPEN' in
the task list when clicking on the Desktop option. Am I missing something?


Peter.
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Subject: Re: (?) Changing the view of desktop 
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