liquidzoo Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Mandrake did a little hack for their version of KDE 3.2 and it changed the name of their kmenu icon. Want to change the default star icon to the one that your icon theme's author intended? Read on: Head to ~/.kde/share/icons/ This is where your user installed icon themes will be (as long as they were installed using the tar.gz files like ftom kde-look) Select the folder of the icon theme that you are using, or that you want to use. Go into the size folders (16x16, 32x32, etc) and into the apps folder. The 2 most common are 32x32 and 48x48 Locate the icon named kmenu.png and rename it to menuk-mdk.png Then reload your icon theme (K menu -> System -> Configuration -> KDE -> LookNFeel -> Icons, select a new theme, then your original theme and click apply) Then you're all set. You should have a new menu icon. With this method, you should be able to select any icon you want to be your new K-Menu icon. Many thanks to Mysti who helped me find the correct icon name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Thanks. I hated that star icon. Great tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 didn't worked here :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 didn't worked here :( Did you make sure to change at least the 32x32 and 48x48 icons? Also, if reloading the icon theme doesn't work, try restarting KDE to see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Thanx, Its working now:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iky_tg Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 You can also rename (or remove) all the menuk-mdk.png you may find in /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg subdirs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 magic!!!!!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 I think I am stuck with the Ugly Star. I tried it both LZ's way and iky_tg's way and its still there. Even rebooted. FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStorm Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 I don't have a ~/.kde/icon directory, nor do I have a kmenu.png file anywhere. So now whats my next move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 I don't have a ~/.kde/icon directory, nor do I have a kmenu.png file anywhere. So now whats my next move? If you have not installed any icon themes, you wouldn't have the folder. btw: It's ~/.kde/share/icons If you find an icon theme you want at KDE Look and install it (per instructions available on that site) then you will have that folder. Otherwise, the default icon themes in KDE are in /usr/share/icons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStorm Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Gracias amigo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titous09 Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 i'm very new to linux and so need some help. when i try to rename the icon is says access was denied. i'm not logged in as root and am not sure how to do that if that will fix it. any help would be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 At the command line: su [enter root password] mv oldname newname exit [to return to your own user] Via the Applications menu, select File Tools, then File Manager - Super User Mode. Enter the root password then navigate to the file in question. Right click to rename. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 ahhh, that annoying little star is gone, thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korsam Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 (edited) It's funny. I thought I was the only one that didn't like the star. I mean, it's not ugly or anything but it just doesn't fit for some reason. I wonder if they got the idea from SuSE using the little gecko icon. Anyway, thanks a bunch, LiquidZoo... Edited July 13, 2004 by korsam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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