Re: Setting desktop position of disks
Re: Setting desktop position of disks
- Subject: Re: Setting desktop position of disks
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 01:01:44 -0800
On 04/01/04, Wim Melis <email@hidden> wrote:
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Maybe someone could help with a small annoyance I haven't able to figure
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out?
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There are six partitions/disks on my desktop. The Finder has always had a
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nasty habit of not putting them in the order that I'd like to see them
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appear. So under OS9, I had a little applet in the startup items that
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told the Finder to set the correct desktop position for each partition
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and disk.
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I'm now on 10.2.8, that annoying Finder habit is still there, but I
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haven't been able to replicate the old script. Any suggestions on how to
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set desktop item positions under OSX?
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AFAIK, you can't. There's no way to do this (which works perfectly in OS 9):
select disk "Wim's partition 3"
set position of selection to {910, 20}
Basically, you do anything on the desktop. When you run select disk, the
Finder opens a new window entitled LocalHost (which contains all of your
the items in /Volumes, selects that appropriate item in that window, but
doesn't select the item from your desktop (which is really the current
user's desktop folder).
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