Change desktop icon

[andy77586]

I put a script on my desktop.

How can I use my own icon for it ?

[malcolmlewis]

On Sat 31 May 2014 02:06:01 AM CDT, andy77586 wrote:


I put a script on my desktop.

How can I use my own icon for it ?

Hi
Right click on the script and select properties, you should then be
able to click on the icon in the properties box and browse to the icon
of your choice.

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[andy77586]

There is no properties box, just General, Permissions, Info, and Preview.

[malcolmlewis]

There is no properties box, just General, Permissions, Info, and Preview.

Hi
So on the general tab do you see the icon? Is so click on that. Alas I only use GNOME, but would have thought it's the same setup in KDE....

[alanbortu]

There is no properties box, just General, Permissions, Info, and Preview.

Does the file have a name.desktop extension? It seems you need that to change the icon. And the .desktop file should point to your actual script.


I dont know if there is a cleaner way to do this though :/

[andy77586]

The desktop icon is reboot.sh.

Should I rename it to just reboot ?

[andy77586]

I renamed it to reboot.desktop and could change the icon.

But now the script won't run.

Some progress.

[malcolmlewis]

I renamed it to reboot.desktop and could change the icon.

But now the script won't run.

Some progress.

Hi
Move the script to your ~/bin (~/ is /home/your user) and then create a desktop shortcut to the script, the change the desktop shortcut icon.

A somename.desktop file is not a script, but it links to it via the exec= entry;
http://standards.freedesktop.org/men...-spec-1.0.html

[alanbortu]

I renamed it to reboot.desktop and could change the icon.

But now the script won't run.

Some progress.

Well .desktop files just point (link) to the actual program that needs to be run so if you open other .desktop files you should get an idea of what they are like.

[Ian Gay]

andy77586 wrote:

>
> There is no properties box, just General, Permissions, Info, and
> Preview.
>
>

Right click the icon on the desktop. A context menu appears, which
should have Properties at the bottom. Click this. A multi-tab dialog
should appear. Select the General tab.

If the desktop icon links to an executable program, you will see the
icon embedded in a button; click this, and browse to a new icon of your
choice.

If, on the other hand, the desktop icon links to a document, you will
see the current icon, but it is not in a clickable buttton. In this
case, there is a button a bit lower down labelled File Type Options.
Click this. You get a new dialog where the icon is now in a clickable
button. Click this and choose a new icon.

The new icon may not show on desktop until KDE is restarted.
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