Desktop Icons

[Jim Summers]

UPDATE

I had something really strange just happen.  I was poking around using find 
trying to located the desktop files.  Found some that I thought might be the 
ones that xfce desktop is using.  They were in /usr/share/apps/systemview.  I 
changed the Icon file to be the same one that nautilus uses.  That did change 
the icon but would not launch thunar.  Then by accident I double clicked on 
the desktop file that will launch nautilus.  It opened nautilus.  Then I 
right-clicked on the desktop and now I do not have a xfce mgr, it seems to be 
nautilus.  Then using ps and kill I got rid of the nautilus process, but then 
all of the desktop icons are gone.  Tried to -HUP the xfce-mcs-manager process 
but that has yielded no joy.

Ideas??

TIA

Jim Summers wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am just starting out with xfce.  I was attempting to change the icon theme 
> to a set of icons that I have been using for a couple of years now in gnome. 
> It is called OSX.  In the UI dialogs I am able to select it.  I didn't think 
> it was working because there were no visible changes on the desktop or panels. 
>   But then I noticed that the 'Filesystem' icon was correct, Just 'Home' and 
> 'Trash' were not changing.  Then I plugged a usb drive in and sure enough it 
> picked up the proper icon.  Then I was using thunar and noticed that all of 
> the proper icons were displayed there.
> 
> So I created an, xfdesktoprc file in ~/.config/xfce4/desktop that I was able 
> to turn off the home and trash shortcuts with.
> 
> I found a thread in the xfce forum that mentioned creating a desktop file and 
> then running thunar against it somehow.  But, I can't figure out where those 
> desktop files are, and then if thunar is already displaying the proper icons, 
> I didn't think it would help on the desktop ones.
> 
> I am running on a x86 FC6 system with xfce installed from the fedora repositories.
> 
> Ideas / Suggestions?
> 
> TIA

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Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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