unresponsive screen graphics

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Friday, January 27, 2017, 12:25:04 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 27 January 2017 at 06:06, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> Running Ubuntu 16.04 with a number of problems we've discussed on this
>> list, and unfortunately seem to recur after certain updates. Some
>> seemed rather mysterious to the list folks so I won't go through those
>> again. I do run a number of KDE programs, and a few from other
>> desktops, but no other full desktop is installed.
>>
>> One hopefully minor problem is that I have several graphics on my
>> screen that I can't seem to get rid of. They look exactly like icons
>> that have been on the screen before, but are completely unresponsive
>> and not listed in the desktop directory. Changing the background
>> picture on the desktop does not get rid of these graphics - they
>> appear in the same place in the new background picture. I'd like to
>> figure out how they are generated and where they are stored and thus
>> get a handle on how to get rid of them. Any pointers would be much
>> appreciated.

> Have a look in your Desktop folder and see if you see them there.

As I said above, it is not there.

> If so and you no longer need them then you can delete them. Not
> surprisingly the contents of the Desktop folder are visible on the
> desktop. I would have expected you to be able to delete them by
> selecting and hitting delete on the desktop itself.

Of course, obviously so - but what if they are not there - or anywhere
else I can see, except on the screen :-) ?

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 rikona