howto change the desktop icons

to change an icon right click and "set icon." to set the icon, drag the desired image from the icons folder (most are in /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps or /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons) right onto the box in the middle if the set icon window- typing is optional!

to create an icon, drag the script or binary for it (this may be the only needed step...) from /usr/local/bin (or any other folder) right onto the desktop.

to edit an icon image, goto the icons folder from mtpaint and open it, or goto the icons folder in rox and right click... "open with" and open it it mtpaint. (the second method may not always work.)

you can zoom in on your image by pressing "7" on your keyboard, or other numbers, nothing that "4" will go back to regular size.

most icons are xpm or png, you can use the "transparent" color by selecting from the background with [CTRL]+Paint tool, or you can set a new background color by selecting "save as..." from the mtpaint menu, checking "set transparancy index" and selecting the number next to the new color in the palette. you may need to "convert to indexed" from the "image" menu, but you probably won't.

after saving the image to the same file you loaded it from, the icon on the desktop will refresh after you hover the mouse cursor over it, if not sooner.

ktwi: puppy 2.11, *should* work also in 1.07 and most (or all) other versions...

thanks to: amish

puppylinux: screenshot anatomy

clockwise, from top right: rxvt, dillo, rox-filer, leafpad, mtpaint

rxvt: terminal window

dillo: lightweight web browser (not shown: seamonkey)

rox-filer: file manager

mtpaint: used to make this screenshot

leafpad: you will probably never find a linux app closer to (it's debatably better than) notepad

desktop: rox desktop (part of rox-filer)

taskbar (feature of joe's window manager/jwm) from left: menu button, buttons for "show desktop", rxvt, editor... pager: shows which desktop is active... buttons for each program open on the current desktop...

also on taskbar (right): volume, freememapplet (blue monitor free ramdisk or free savefile), xload (cpu usage) and clock.


ktwi: this is a screenshot of puppylinux 2.11, some of the features on the taskbar aren't available in puppy 1.x. "show desktop" doesn't work properly in version 2.13 with the newer rox-filer 2.5.

thanks to: bloodhound, amish