Desktop icons
Desktop icons
Does anyone know how to reduce the size of icons globally, or is there even such a feature? In particular, I'd like to make the desktop icons smaller. I tried ROX options and it seems you can only change the size for the filer and menus, but not the desktop.
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I never tried to do this yet... Shame on me 
Now i'm curious...
Did you try to change the **48.png by the ***24.png version of the icons?
For example, instead of this icon: /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/card48.png, use this one /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/card24.png to have exactly the same in 24 pixels.
I'll try it too an let you know what happens.
Now i'm curious...
Did you try to change the **48.png by the ***24.png version of the icons?
For example, instead of this icon: /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/card48.png, use this one /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/card24.png to have exactly the same in 24 pixels.
I'll try it too an let you know what happens.
I'm on LuPu 520
Me neither...
But, if you still want to test it, this could be a fast way:
Open this file into Geany and search for the "48" string:
/root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons
Then replace it every time with "24".
It looks pretty cool actually and you could have more icons in a considerable minor desktop space if you change your puppypin.
Still have to check a few things about it, but see the attached pic...
But, if you still want to test it, this could be a fast way:
Open this file into Geany and search for the "48" string:
/root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons
Then replace it every time with "24".
It looks pretty cool actually and you could have more icons in a considerable minor desktop space if you change your puppypin.
Still have to check a few things about it, but see the attached pic...
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- TinyIcons.jpg
- Still needing 24pix versions of another icons...
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Yep, looks pretty cool, but now the spacing is too great. If you are familar with the launchbar (wbar), there are lots of parameters on the line inserted into the xinitrc script that control icon size, spacing, etc. It seems there almost has to be something similar that sets up the main desktop screen? I'll keep poking and see what I can discover.
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You can change the icon spacing (used when dragging the icons to re-align them, etc) in the Rox options (Pinboard -> Icon Grid Step).
To change all the icons takes a little work.
In Lucid Puppy 5.2 I had to do the following:
edit icon entries in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons
edit icon entries in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons
edit icon entries in /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy4
For icons that are script driven application directories you may have to change the .DirIcon symlink and any scripts that may change the icon under certain conditions..
e.g.
For the trash icon:
edit icon entries in /usr/local/apps/Trash/AppRun
edit icon entries in /usr/local/apps/Trash/template/temp-AppRun
If you look at /usr/sbin/icon_switcher, you will see the code that generates the size 24 icons. You can use similar code to generate icons at other sizes.
To change all the icons takes a little work.
In Lucid Puppy 5.2 I had to do the following:
edit icon entries in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons
edit icon entries in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons
edit icon entries in /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy4
For icons that are script driven application directories you may have to change the .DirIcon symlink and any scripts that may change the icon under certain conditions..
e.g.
For the trash icon:
edit icon entries in /usr/local/apps/Trash/AppRun
edit icon entries in /usr/local/apps/Trash/template/temp-AppRun
If you look at /usr/sbin/icon_switcher, you will see the code that generates the size 24 icons. You can use similar code to generate icons at other sizes.
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- desktop.jpg
- My desktop at 1280x1024 with size 36 icons
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Last edited by NE1 on Sat 12 Feb 2011, 07:14, edited 1 time in total.