How to change mandriva Star in Kicker bar? Thanks a lot in advance.

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Is there any way to change the color of the kicker?

Right-click on it > Configure panel > Appearance > Panel background

I mean to change the background of an orange mandriva start button, not to change the background of the panel.

Right-click on it > Configure panel > Appearance > Button background > K menu

No. The button remains orange, only its background changes. I guess it is some kind of an icon, if i knew where to find it i could change it.

It's in /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/whatever-size/apps

I doubt that it is there...
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Here's the revisions in cvs: mdv_kmenu
To find it in your system do:thenthen you can use the one linked above or gimp the one you have.

WoW, thanks dude !

Hi!
I tried to replace the standard mdv_kmenu.png with the one linked above, but with no success In my Mandriva Spring the icons responsible for displaying this menu png are located in /var/lib/mandriva/kde-profiles/free/share/icons/crystalsvg, where I have six folders: "128x128", "64x64", "48x48", "32x32", "22x22" and "16x16". I'm currently using "mdv_kmenu.png" size "medium", which is located in "48x48" folder. It's size 194x48 pixels. I put the icon linked above to this folder, replacing the older one, as it has the same size. Unfortunately nothing has changed, even after restart. Ay suggestions?
And one more question: do they come in green?

OK, then you will have to use Gimp and resize the new .png to the size of 'each' directory. Then place each image in the proper directory, replacing the old image. I just resized a couple and they look ok. Here's 129x32 for the 32x32 directory:

I'm guessing the reason yours is orange (and mine was too, till I replaced with the normal star) is that you installed from One, and the orange theme wasn't replaced with the blue on install.
I think that's why I've got orange scroll bars and orange highlighting on my menu entries, and an orange "KDE 3.5 / One" on my start menu.
I assumed that an update using urpmi would have replaced those things but it seems not.

Thx much, it did the trick. I've also did some Gimp-voodoo on it, and now I have a green KMenu icon!

Looks good, but I still prefer the original kmenu.png

Your voodoo might need some fine-tuning. You could tweak the hue so that the star and text remain visible, something like this:Click to view attachment

No, I prefer when it's all green. And maybe You didn't notice, but I used the original mdv_kmenu.png file, not the one linked above by Greg2, because of the white line on the bottom, and because on the right side it has a white triangle. On the original one this triangle is transparent.

Would someone tell me how to make a black kmenu button? A step by step short howto would be great. I'd like to keep the original color of the star and the text and the 3d look of the button too.

You could use Colours->Desaturate to make a grey one, and then play with the Colours->Levels command (with a low gamma) to darken the grey towards black.

Thank you. Here's the result: Click to view attachment

I like mine in very dark black (currently). Here's what I did with Gimp; I kinda thought the button with the text was too big.
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Sorry folks, it was the wrong image. The first one had a few stripes in it. This one doesn't.
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It goes well with my black bar:
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The black bar:
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Hey, I'm new to linux, trying to find the panel so I can make it black like you guys did. I found a file called mandriva-panel.png, is that the one I want to change?

Also, how do I switch between the small kmenu (just the star in your pics) and the wider one that says "menu" on it?

And finally, just for kicks: if I wanted to make it look similar to this: http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=att...ost&id=3233 but have the star glow blue when you hover, how would I go about that?


*edit*
I found the option to switch the panel color right after I posted. However, it didn't gel well with some of the other stuff on the bar. So now I want to know how to change the fonts and highlight color of minimized windows, and how to get rid of the little gray line that shows up when I mouseover a section on the panel.

*edit again*
Apparently the things I'm trying to fix the color of are called applet handles. I can disable them, but I'd rather just change the color so it fits better. Also, found the way to fix the clock but still need help with those minimized windows.

This is an old topic. It's for Mandriva 2007. In 2008 you have to change the menu icon in a different way. There are a few topics about it already. They also explain howto get rid of the menu text. Sorry but I can't remember these things.

Well I think I've figured out how to change everything I want, except that it says I don't have permission to edit the files. My questions still apply:


1. Changing the panel color didn't gel well with some of the other stuff on the bar. So now I want to know how to change the fonts and highlight color of minimized windows, and how to get rid of the little gray line that shows up when I mouseover a section on the panel. I can just disable applet handles entirely, but that's inconvenient. There should be a way to change the color of the gray part.

2. How can I get it to let me edit the image files? I have a feeling I need to log in as root somehow, but if I su in konsole it doesn't help and I'm such a noob that I don't know anything else to try.

3. And just for kicks: if I wanted to make it look similar to this: http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=att...ost&id=3233 but have the star glow blue when you hover, how would I go about that?

Try running konqueror as root. From the command line kdesu konqueror

There's also an openasroot-kmenu package in the repos. It adds open, edit, and run as root actions to your Konqueror > right-click > actions menu.

I would suggest that you make backups (copies) of any files before you edit them, at least until you're more familiar with Linux. This way you can fix anything you accidentally screw up.

Alright cool. Running Konqueror in root let me see all the directories that I wanted; didn't get a chance to try editing image files but I assume it will work.

As for the other thing, I'm still running off live CDs specifically so I can't screw anything up. Probably going to actually install this week though.