Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: jhaveri_hiral on October 10, 2010, 01:55:18 PM

Title: Changing Desktop Icons and their Names??
Post by: jhaveri_hiral on October 10, 2010, 01:55:18 PM

Hello,

I want to change the default 4 icons and their names that appear at the bottom-center of the TinyCoreLinux..

I have seen the contents of

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/usr/share/applications/tinycore-exittc.desktop which is for exit..

Here I changed the value of Name and Icon but they didn't work..

While searching, I found a few icons at

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/usr/share/pixmaps.. I changed these icons too but I got no change at the desktop icons..

So plz guide me how to change the default icons as well as their names when we drag mouse over it at the TinyCoreLinux Desktop..  ???

Thank you..

Title: Re: Changing Desktop Icons and their Names??
Post by: maro on October 10, 2010, 09:42:20 PM

So you want to tweak something regarding the "wbar", and you found a .desktop file. Those particular files are actually not influencing the "wbar" (at least not until now). During the system boot these .desktop files are only used to populate the "SystemTools" sub-menu (which is visible via mouse right-click on the desktop when using the default WM 'flwm_topside').

The initial "wbar" is actually controlled by '/usr/share/wbar/dot.wbar', but the "current" config file is '/usr/local/tce.icons'. If you'd like to test a change use the latter file and force a re-start of "wbar" via wbar.sh If you'd like to make permanent changes I'd suggest to do those in the former file. To allow for them to "survive" a re-boot the changed file needs to be included in the backup (e.g. via echo usr/share/wbar/dot.wbar >> /opt/.filetool.lst). If you do this just make sure that you have a setup for persistency and have executed a backup (e.g. via filetool.sh -b)

Triggered by your question I've actually done a bit of "poking around", and written another post (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7490.msg39830#msg39830), which you might want to read. OTOH it might just confuse you, so that is up to you whether you see any benefit in the question I raised there.

Title: Re: Changing Desktop Icons and their Names??
Post by: jur on October 11, 2010, 09:24:09 AM

I wrote a step-by-step how-to in the TCB tips and tricks sub-forum.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=6762.0

Title: Re: Changing Desktop Icons and their Names??
Post by: vishrut_n_shah on October 16, 2010, 02:53:10 AM

@jur & maro

thanks a lot ..it will help all who likes altering things...