Programmatically placing/deleting icons form desktop

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:23, Sori Schwimmer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to show/hide icons on desktop
> programmatically? I would like to be able to run a
> script at boot that, according to some conditions,
> will allow some custom applications to run, while
> hiding the others. The script exists and performs all
> kind of other things before launching X.

Icons on the desktop are just .desktop files in the user's KDE desktop 
directory.

kde-config --userpath desktop

Default is $HOME/Desktop

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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