OK, thanks. It is weird that Apple somehow could leave this and virtual desktops when OS X is based on BSD and both are found in Linux as well. Apple first plans to implement virtual desktops in Leopard, but that is a step too far for me as I still want my Classic. Cheers, Brian On 10/11/06, Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2006, at 1:56 PM, C. Aranzazu wrote: > > > I understand what you mean by computer icon. as in the upper most > > level you can navigate to where you see all your mounted drives and > > network icon... as far as i know there is no way to do have that > > icon on your desktop. > > > >> Anyone know of a way to add a computer icon to the OS X desktop? I > >> have checked both Finder and System prefs with no luck. I am using > >> Tiger 10.4.8 on a G5 single. > > Yeah - it won't let me make aliases of those things. Its pretty close > to what you get if you do Go => Computer from the finder menu. But I > can't get it to make aliases of those top level items in the desktop. > If you could alias that, it would be pretty close to double-click a > "Computer" icon. As it is, you have to do an extra step to get there. > > SR