Subj : Tastes Like Windows To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Tue May 26 2020 07:32:00 Hi Ky! > Kurious Kitty work up and started purring aorund... KM> KM> Kitten has no idea who its mom is, and neither do I... Usually it's no idea who the father is! >> Well I'll admit to never having tried to change an icon in Linux. The >> answer is probably buried somewhere in the Google Hits; > That was the wake up! I'll presume you've seen these but here goes > anyway; the last one is probably closer to what you need" KM> THIS WAS THE ONE I NEEDED! Yea!!! > Icon Storage Locations > The .desktop link files are stored in /usr/share/applications for > software installed for all users, and $HOME/.local/share/applications > for things you have installed only for yourself. > The actual icon (image) files are a bit more scattered (since a .desktop > file can specify their absolute path), but /usr/share/pixmaps and > /usr/share/icons contain a good fraction of them. (icons at > $prefix/share/icons/ with required fall-back version in hicolor theme > can be loaded without the full path, thus such as Icon=video-display > where $prefix can be /usr, /usr/local or ~/.local; See specification > at freedesktop.org: Icon Theme Specification ) KM> AH!! Thank you!!!!! Those places are full of little .png files, KM> and subdirs full of little .png files -- must be at least some of KM> 'em! Seems to be most -- I just did a quick look -- the 8x8's are way too small to visually browse -- think was the 256x256's are easier on the eyes! Oh, while I think of it, the Desktop background picture is a little sneaky: if it's a PNG it's in one subdir and if a JPG another. Putting the wrong filetype in the directory won't work (won't display). KM> Now, does anyone know where the cursors are kept? Due to some KM> weird bug in our incarnation of KDE, it only respects Polar, KM> which is too ugly for words. But if I can edit Polar to be a less KM> disgusting color (than plain white) then all will be well. Cursors are displayed when one drops their Pet Rock on their foot! https://askubuntu.com/questions/608337/where-are-the-mouse-cursors-locat ed Where are the mouse cursors located? They are located in folders in /usr/share/icons, named according to the theme, irrespective of the desktop environment: $ ls -d /usr/share/icons/*/cursors /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursors /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors /usr/share/icons/handhelds/cursors /usr/share/icons/redglass/cursors /usr/share/icons/whiteglass/cursors This post https://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-New-Cursor-Themes-in-Ubun tu-466821.shtml might give you qguiandace on how to create your own, etc. May or may not be current as from 2014. > How do I install icons on Ubuntu? > > To install an icon theme, you must instead create a Æ’?o. iconsÆ’?? folder > in your main home folder, and then place the theme file in there. In > other words, Application themes (GTK themes) go in . themes, while icon > themes go in .Jul 5, 2018 KM> How to install icons on KDE: KM> Right click on the desktop, Configure, Icons, "Get more icons" KM> and soon you're presented with the current catalog (of thousands) KM> of icon themes, which you can browse and install on the spot. KM> Why is Ubuntu so difficult? We're happy with the icons they gave us because the selected the best ones already? ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... A picture is worth 1000 words. How many words is a computer icon worth? --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .