Trash Icon on Desktop - Gnome
Using gconf-editor navigate to applications - nautilus - desktop.
There are a couple of icons you can select to show on the desktop including “computer”, “home”, and “trash”.
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Using gconf-editor navigate to applications - nautilus - desktop.
There are a couple of icons you can select to show on the desktop including “computer”, “home”, and “trash”.
Gnome offers in its top panel an applet to configure graphical, folder view FTP and SSH connections. This easily implements a type of home network that is capable of transferring files back and forth between multiples computers. While FTP is substantially faster, SSH is increasingly secure; its a trade off. Overall the graphical aspect is uncomparable, and simply superior to the traditional FTP client, or terminal based SSH connection or SCP transfer. The following is a screen shot of the Gnome Panel graphical networking configuration menu.
If you use Evolution main from an installation that was originally in the /home/user/.evolution folder, and have migrated to a separate partition with a different mount point, you will have to create a link to the folder in the home/user directory. For instance my .evolution folder is stored on my extra partition in /media/sda5/.evolution, and when I try and send mail it tries to save the data in /home/user/.bgevolution. To correct this error I simply placed a link to /media/sda5/.bgevolution inside the /home/user/ folder. This resolves everything and establishes folder location consistency for Evolution Mail.
This is the ultimate backup solution. With this solution even if you need to completely reinstall your operating system you will retain all your settings and files completely without the need for any external backup whatsoever. All the partitioning can be done during the Ubuntu graphical installation. You going to want at least 2 partitions, with the largest one being your home folder. The OS partition only needs to be a couple of gigabytes; for instance mine are 4. I setup 3 extra partition, they had to be logical to do this, so I can have two operating systems. I have a Debian Etch installation, and a Gutsy GIbbon installation. Both operating systems successfully recognize my home folder location on the other partition, which I successfully automount to the /mount/username folder.
By placing your entire home folder on a completely separate partition, when you reinstall your OS all you will have to do is set to home folder of the user to the folder location of where the your home partition is mounted.
The extent of work that may have to be done is the following:
1) You may have to configure the home partition to mount in a location; sometimes it dousn’t mount.
2) To do this just open your fstab file, copy one of the lines that mounts a partition, duplicate that line, and chance the partition number to the one you are using for your home partition.
3) *Note that you cannot use the /home directory as a location to mount your home partition; I have run into issues with this. Instead just use a common ducted such as /media/username.
Since a lot of the software in Ubuntu Gutsy is not available on Debian Etch, you are going to want to make your Gnome Panel icons as completely compatible backwards compatible with Debian such that all the Gnome panels icons successfully load with them representing applications that exist on both operating systems. I have experiences with with Firefox as Debian uses Iceweasel. To accommodate I copied the Firefox icon from my Ubuntu system to my home folder, and use that icon to boot Iceweasel. It gels nicely.
