I get really annoyed when i accidently press and hold the desktop and all the little crosses appear to ove everything around. I end up accidently moving stuff. I did it recently whilst i was on a call using the side of my face!!! Does anyone else have this problem? I think its enough that when you touch the top of the screen that the icon appears to change the desktop.
Any ideas?

As far as I can remember this has been discussed before but no sure solution has been found

It annoys me too....

Yea especially when you gives someone your phone and they just delete everything from the desktop

I was also thinking that an automatic screen lock would be useful. I dont like the password lock as it freezes on me sometimes so jus use the side button. but if this came on automatically after say a minute this would save me no end of frustration! Am i missing a setting somewhere? can this already be done?

Just having the screen lock automatically has been around since forever. I think it's in your display settings in the settings menu.

Anyway, the main point is disabling the press-and-hold-to-edit... I'm not sure what, if any, options exist to make that happen. You can see if Matan's custom Hildon Desktop (or anyone else's) contains the option to disable it. *Shrug*

1) enable matans repo in app manager or faster app manager and and then install "modified-hildon-desktop"

repo added as such
name Matan's repository
url http://my.svgalib.org/repo/binary/
distribution ./

name, url, and distribution are the fields to input to, you do not type them. make sure enable repo is checked

2) make 2 scripts in /bin and make sure they are both executable.
first script is called unlock, second script is called lock...please note I am using bash as my shell, if you are using sh I suspect you may have to change the value of bash to sh in the stuff I posted below...

#!/bin/bash
#this is the script "unlock" ---make sure it has execute permissions
gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/key-actions/disable_edit -t bool false

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#!/bin/bash
#this is the script "lock" ---make sure it has execute permissions
gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/key-actions/disable_edit -t bool true


now you will open a terminal and type "lock" to lock the desktop (the way you will have it normally) and unlock to unlock to add icons or move stuff about. remember to lock it again when you are done...

thanks so much have been waitin for a fix .

1 question a totally noob one but how do i make them executable please

! .

As root:

which begs the question for a totally newbie, how do I become root?

install rootsh then you should simply be able to type "root" in a terminal and you are in as the root user. execute the command so make the file executable and type exit and you will be back as user "user".

you can just cut and paste the text from the above post into a textfile using nano or vi. of course you will need ssh server installed and running on the n900 to do that...always another hoop....

I only know vi on this device but I am sure there is an easy text editor so that you can just input those few lines into each file...then make it then executable, again this will all be done as root.

it doesn't work
i downloaded hildon-desktop from repo. i made scripts. chmod them
and when typing lock it says -sh lock not found