[CentOS] What is this

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Tue Sep 29 18:52:32 UTC 2009


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:29:16 -0500
DTS Corp wrote:

> I was working in terminal and then found this on the desktop when I do
> an ls
> 
> [root at dtslinux Desktop]# ls
> bar-003ada89db.desktop      hadjaha-00c578ceaf.desktop

Were you logging into X as root?  That's generally a bad thing, and isn't
necessary for any purpose that I'm aware of.  Best practice is to login as a
user, then su - root as required.

Having said that:

*.desktop files are usually found in your ~/.kde and/or ~/.gnome2 directories;
they are the files that specify what appears where on your panel bar and
desktop.

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