Is there a way to change the text that is displayed for desktop icons ?
Which desktop are you using? (KDE, GNOME, …)
Have you tried right-clicking on the icon and select “Rename”?
If that’s not what you’re looking for then please try to explain in more detail what you are trying to achieve…
If you are using KDE, right click on the icon and select Properties.
I saw a K on a blue icon, so I think that means KDE.
I found it under Icon Settings, Application, and Name.
But for some reason, a blue icon with the K in it, won’t let me change it.
It has Applications //: and I want to get rid of the last 3 characters.
I have tried about 8 versions of Linux and have found opensuse to be the easiest to use and configure.
I don’t mind using the console, just not a lot of time. 
I have found that KDE is partial to using ImageWriter instead of unetbootin, usb installer, or rufus.
Take care,
Andy
Confused. Do you want to change the name of the icon file or the name of the application associated with it or…??
To change the short cut name right click and short cut and select rename. You can also rename files in the file browser the same way. Note you may not have permission level to rename the icons themselves I never tried myself. They may be owned by root
Nut the icon name is not what shows on desk top for a shortcut that would be the shortcut name.
Imagewriter is not a KDE product but an openSUSE product.
If you find the file associations in KDE you can shoose to have unetbootin or rufus to come up by default.
Yes, that’s the KDE logo.
I found it under Icon Settings, Application, and Name.
But for some reason, a blue icon with the K in it, won’t let me change it.
It has Applications //: and I want to get rid of the last 3 characters.
I still don’t understand what you mean, sorry.
Could you maybe post a screenshot showing the icon?
I could not find how to add an attachment of a screen shot.
I used Login Manager and set the bootup o.s. to Windows XP, but it still defaults to opensuse ?
And how can I manually edit grub.cfg ?
It won’t let me even though I have an admin account.
Thanks.
There is no admin account in Linux. There is root.
So one, never log into a GUI as root. you can cause serious damage just browsing stuff.
If in a GUI (as a normal user) using a file browser?? in menu system file manager there should be a dolphin super user browser this allows access at the root level. Navigate to the file and right click and select ‘open with’ then select an editor and edit the file.
But it is not a simple config file like in grub 1
then you need to run in a konsole as root (become root with su- [note dash])
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
linux-s0vx:/home/andy # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub.cfg …
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.16-default
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.16-default
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-default
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-default
Found memtest image: /boot/memtest.bin
No volume groups found
Found Microsoft Windows XP on /dev/sda1
done
Thanks goglethorp, it worked.
Andy
Glad you got it working. It really is not hard…once you know the magic words