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Desktop icon issues
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:41 pm
by alansecker
I would like to change the displayed name of one or two icons but cannot find a way to do it.
I want to add a desktop icon pointing at a string. eg. "/usr/bin/firefox" 127.0.0.1:631
This points to cups, but again cannot see how to do it in LXDE.
I am running PCLinuxOS by the way.
Re: Desktop icon issues
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:15 am
by M_Mynaardt
alansecker wrote:I would like to change the displayed name of one or two icons but cannot find a way to do it.
I want to add a desktop icon pointing at a string. eg. "/usr/bin/firefox" 127.0.0.1:631
This points to cups, but again cannot see how to do it in LXDE.
I am running PCLinuxOS by the way.
I figured this one on my own. By trial and error; which really means "mostly error".
It's an easy fix; all the icon buttons are actually text files with things like the icon name, the execution (app) command and all that.
To change the name of the icon on the desktop, open your
application.desktop file with a text editor and look for the
Name=Application Name line and change "Application Name" to whatever you like. Although it won't display long names, so keep the name short.
Here's an example I put on my own desktop; a trash-can icon. I just made a desktop icon ("Trash.desktop") and used a trash can icon file of my liking, made the icon name display as "Trash" and got the icon to execute PCManFM to open the trash folder. The text in my Trash.desktop file looks like so:
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Trash
Comment=RunPCManFM
Icon=/home/buddy/.extra-icons/trashcan-128x128(c).png
Exec=/usr/bin/pcmanfm trash:///
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Hope that's what you're looking for...
Re: Desktop icon issues
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:59 pm
by sigur
Hello. Maybe you could help me. I can see the trash can on the left panel of pacman but when I click it the url trash:/// is displayed but with no files.
In terminal I can see the files in ~/.local/share/Trash/files but I can not see them using the trash can icon.
please, help me.
Regards