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Subject: Re: [OT] Linux help.. just a quickie.. [OT]

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 21:50:47 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 23:11:09, Tom Likens wrote:

>Hey Peter,
>
>When you say you saved it to the desktop, what does that mean exactly?
>I'm using SUSE 9.0 and KDE and the steps I used to create an xboard desktop
>link were...
>
>1. Right click over the desktop
>2. Select "Create New" -> "Link to Application"
>3. Fill in the dialog that appears (there is even an xboard icon selectable
>   under application icons).
>
>Is this the process you followed?  If you are using KDE you might try
>looking under the "Desktop" folder in your home directory to see if
>everything looks correct in the xboard file.
>
>Also I thought under Linux you needed to supply the IP address for the
>-icshost option (it's 204.178.125.65 for ICC).
>
>regards,
>--tom

Hey Tom,

Actually following your route is _much_ easier than the way I was trying. I will
have to follow that in the future as well. It was 1000 times easier.

Peter



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