Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)

Article View: comp.os.os2.misc

Article #17347

#17347

From: Helge Hafting
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 13:22

18 lines
1980 bytes

In article <1994Jan25.162006.8022@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
 >  For example, I like the feature of
 > being able to open the desktop as a window (complete with a frame).
 > Wish there were a direct way (i.e., w/o human intervention) to do it,
 > other than by having to write a REXX script.
 > 
Bring up the desktop menu.  (right mouse button.)  Select "open->icon view"
from the menu. This opens a desktop window with a frame an everything,
without any rexx.

If you want this window to appear automatically, then place a shadow of
the desktop directory (found in the drive object for the drive where 
os/2 is installed) in the startup folder. 

Perhaps you want the framed desktop window to be the only desktop window,
i.e. you don't want all those icons in the background?  In that case, move
all the icons into a folder called "my desktop", and use that as your desktop.
This will be the only object on the real desktop.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <2ij0mg$3nv@ugle.unit.no>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!zaphod.crihan.fr!warwick!uknet!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!lise.unit.no!hafting

References:

<2heo53$a3e@ugle.unit.no> <2huvpb$nc8@panix2.panix.com> <1994Jan25.210940.24480@waikato.ac.nz> <1994Jan25.162006.8022@midway.uchicago.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a
X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public
X-Google-Thread: 10ca75,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a
X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca75,public
X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a
X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-01-31 18:46:34 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!zaphod.crihan.fr!warwick!uknet!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!lise.unit.no!hafting
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.beta,bit.listserv.os2-l
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist (Another to add)
Date: 31 Jan 1994 13:22:24 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Lines: 18
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ij0mg$3nv@ugle.unit.no>
References: <2heo53$a3e@ugle.unit.no> <2huvpb$nc8@panix2.panix.com> <1994Jan25.210940.24480@waikato.ac.nz> <1994Jan25.162006.8022@midway.uchicago.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lise13.lise.unit.no

Reply to Parent Message