[X-Newbies] Computer icon on desktop.

[Steven Rogers]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Brian Durant wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Yes there is. Finder --> preferences -> general. Unfortunately, that
> isn't what I want. I want to keep them away from the desktop, but be
> able to access them all from a "computer" icon on the desktop. This
> behavior would be similar to  Linux (gconf-editor) where you can
> choose to have a computer icon on the desktop.

When you open the main volume, they show up in the volumes section of  
the finder toolbar area on the left. That seems pretty close to  
double-click desktop icon, select volume => explore.

SR