Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!agate!ucbvax!MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU!karron From: karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: placing programs and icons Message-ID: <9010170203.AA24128@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 12:20:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: karron%CMCL2.NYU.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 19:03:24 DSD Is there a tool that will permit you to design your desktop ? I just spent too much time fiddling with the prefpositions and preforigins of the toys I like to have on my desktop. If I could just move them around and get the coordinates from the windows that would be a real time saver. Can I get mailbox and clock to startup as icons ? Since they still run the same as icons, there it no need to have them around as small widgits. mailbox did not respect an argument -m 100 anyway (to get it to appear icon size. The same for clock. I like a neat and clean desk on my computer, to contrast the dump my real desk has always been... dan. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+