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Pinboard
If you click Menu over a blank area of the
desktop, you will see a menu called Pinboard.
Don't worry too much about this at the moment.
It's explained in the RISC OS 3 User and
Applications Guide, and enables you to do
things like
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You might come across one use of Pinboard when
you are dragging files (for example) from one
directory to another. If you let go of the Select
button accidentally while the file you are dragging
is over a blank portion of the desktop, its icon will
stay on the background.
You can remove the 'dropped' icon from the
background as follows:
1 Display the Pinboard menu
Move the pointer over the dropped icon and
click Menu.
2 Remove the icon
Choose Remove icon from the menu. If that option
is greyed out, it means that the pointer wasn't quite
over the icon when you clicked Menu. Try again.
This action does not delete the file itself — the
icon stuck on the pinboard is merely a 'pointer' to
the real file on your disc.
changing the whole background of the
desktop into a picture
leaving file or application icons 'stuck' to the
desktop background, so you can see and use
them, even when the directory they came from
is closed
closing a window down to an icon on the
background.
Files and directories
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