Drive icons on desktop

[Larry Hartman]

On Friday 14 December 2007 06:55:20 pm John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 10:13 PM, Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at vzavenue.net> wrote:
> > At one time the icons appeared and never left.....now they only appear
> > when
> > the CD/DVD drive is mounted.  I know this has been addressed before, and
> > I did enable the appropriate kcontrol settings to have icons shown all
> > the time, but to no avail.
>
> My data point is that when I first boot up, I don't see any of the drive
> icons.  But they show up within the first day.  So for me, it isn't any
> mounting of CD/DVD.  Though mounting anything, like a USB drive, does seem
> to be one of the ways to make it happen.

At one time I did have them permanently affixed, I think they lost permanence 
during an upgrade, possibly from edgy to feisty....