[X-Newbies] Computer icon on desktop.

[Ed T]

while in finder / desktop ...  command and pg up as an alternate to  
Go=>Computer.  But still not what you want

On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Steven Rogers 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
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