griptypethyne Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 I am running kde. I have installed firefox from the a tgz file. I added a link on the desktop. The link uses the default icon. When I right clicked on the icon and Properties I could not find a way of changing the icon. I then clicked on Edit File Type and found that by clicking on the icon I I could change it. When I clicked on Apply or OK the icon on the desktop did not change. Any help on how to change desktop icons would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 Try restarting X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted June 14, 2004 Report Share Posted June 14, 2004 Just a guess...have you tried to do the changes as root? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 Right click on the icon ---- click on properties ---- then click on the box that is showing the icon pic and choose a new pic ----- no need to be root! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griptypethyne Posted June 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 I discovered that the icons change after I re-boot so I assume that closing the GUI and restarting would have the save result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 I discovered that the icons change after I re-boot so I assume that closing the GUI and restarting would have the save result. yes, it would. (just to confirm your suspicions ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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