I would like to set it up so a number of custom icons for commercial software we have in our lab are copied to a users Desktop/ directory upon first login to KDE. I know there is a script somewhere that causes SuSE to copy several icons there (Office.desktop, Printer.desktop, SuSE.desktop, etc...), but I can't figure out where it is. Anyone have an idea? Thanks, -- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department ETC 3.130 ph: 512.471.5951 mailguy[at]hpc.me..utexas.edu http://hpc.me.utexas.edu
On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:54 pm, michael stone wrote:
I would like to set it up so a number of custom icons for commercial software we have in our lab are copied to a users Desktop/ directory upon first login to KDE. I know there is a script somewhere that causes SuSE to copy several icons there (Office.desktop, Printer.desktop, SuSE.desktop, etc...), but I can't figure out where it is. Anyone have an idea?
Thanks, -- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator ==============
Michael, Not really sure what you are asking here, but if it is that you want to change the icon of the program as it appears to you, then it's a simple matter of right clicking on the icon and going to "Properties". Click on the icon image that is in the new window that opened and search for your icon to replace it. If you want to make your own, then kiconedit is a nice program for that or The Gimp or Sodipodi or Inkscape! Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.94 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:54 pm, michael stone wrote:
I would like to set it up so a number of custom icons for commercial software we have in our lab are copied to a users Desktop/ directory upon first login to KDE. I know there is a script somewhere that causes SuSE to copy several icons there (Office.desktop, Printer.desktop, SuSE.desktop, etc...), but I can't figure out where it is. Anyone have an idea?
Thanks, -- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator ==============
Michael, Not really sure what you are asking here, but if it is that you want to change the icon of the program as it appears to you, then it's a simple matter of right clicking on the icon and going to "Properties". Click on the icon image that is in the new window that opened and search for your icon to replace it.
Not really what I am looking for... I have the icons/application links created and working, I just need them copied to a user's Desktop directory when they first log in. Normally, I would put this stuff in /etc/skel/Desktop, but that directory's content gets clobbered upon the user's first login to KDE. I need to know what script creates/puts stuff in that directory so I can make it not clobber it, or have it put the icons in. Thanks for the reply, though.
Lee --
-- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department ETC 3.130 ph: 512.471.5951 mailguy[at]hpc.me..utexas.edu http://hpc.me.utexas.edu
On Friday 16 January 2004 01:00 am, michael stone wrote: =
Michael, Not really sure what you are asking here, but if it is that you want to change the icon of the program as it appears to you, then it's a simple matter of right clicking on the icon and going to "Properties". Click on the icon image that is in the new window that opened and search for your icon to replace it.
Not really what I am looking for... I have the icons/application links created and working, I just need them copied to a user's Desktop directory when they first log in. Normally, I would put this stuff in /etc/skel/Desktop, but that directory's content gets clobbered upon the user's first login to KDE. I need to know what script creates/puts stuff in that directory so I can make it not clobber it, or have it put the icons in.
Thanks for the reply, though.
-- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator =============
Still a little fuzzy on what you are trying to accomplish, but if you want the desktop icon to appear on another user's desktop, then copy the .desktop file to their $HOME/desktop directory. If you are trying to do something that appears system wide by placing it into a "root" only directory, /etc, then it will not work as you have seen. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.94 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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