Desktop picture repeats as icon SOLVED

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Desktop picture repeats as icon SOLVED

Postby Bloggsworth » Apr 12th, '14, 23:54

A small problem, but mine own. I converted an old Advent XP laptop to Mageia4 for my neighbour, and put her favourite picture on the desktop and found that the JPG selected for the desktop, and placed in the desktop folder with stripes and the default, also appears as an icon on the desktop - As you can imagine, it looks a bit odd, so I deleted it and found that the desktop reverted to the default blue, so I re-did it and got the desktop back plus the JPG. Any suggestions as to why it happens, and how I can get rid of it?
Last edited by Bloggsworth on Apr 15th, '14, 14:57, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Desktop picture repeats as icon

Postby benmc » Apr 13th, '14, 07:06

hello,

do you mean that you have the default wallpaper with the picture as a centred icon?
or
do you mean that you have a black background with the picture as a centred icon?
or
do you mean that you have the picture as your new wallpaper and also the picture as an icon on the wallpaper?

could you take a screen shot [ prtscn key ] and attach?

just reread your post to see if i understand it..

have you put a link [ shortcut in windows parlance ] from the file you placed on the desktop to the wallpaper folder rather than the actual file?
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Re: Desktop picture repeats as icon

Postby jkerr82508 » Apr 13th, '14, 09:42

Bloggsworth wrote: and placed in the desktop folder

You should save the file in some other folder. The Mageia desktop is a "folder view" which means that the desktop will display icons for any files that are in the Desktop folder.

Alternatively change the desktop from "folder view" layout to "Default Desktop".

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Re: Desktop picture repeats as icon

Postby Bloggsworth » Apr 13th, '14, 13:32

Got it. I removed it from the desktop folder, put it in Pictures, then selected it from there, now all is well - Thanks, it was me being thick!

Is there a "Solved" button?
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Re: Desktop picture repeats as icon

Postby doktor5000 » Apr 13th, '14, 15:07

Sadly not yet :/
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks
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