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Custom icon for launcher on desktop?

Post by HeavyUser » Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:53 am

I have switched to using the AppImage of LMMS because of trouble with running VST’s in the usual LMMS program from the repositories. Now the AppImage of LMMS works well and I can launch it by means of a launcher from my desktop:

But it would be perfect when I could give the launcher the appearance of the LMMS icon. I currently have several identical rockets on my desktop for launching non-repository programs, and this just doesn’t look as it should.

I am running Linux Mint 19.2 64-bit.

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Re: Custom icon for launcher on desktop?

Post by gm10 » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:47 am

Depends on your desktop environment, I imagine. On MATE you’d just right click > Properties and then click the icon to change it.

Re: Custom icon for launcher on desktop?

Post by HeavyUser » Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:04 pm

I have Cinnamon. Rightclicking gives:

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Missing desktop icons SOLVED

Post by michellebrooks » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:18 am

Just got a new computer and I am LOVING this OS! It runs SO much better than on my crappy old HP. Things are running lighting fast and working really well.

As I was configuring the new installation, I was playing around with the desktop animation and other tweaks. In doing this, I have noticed a couple of changes that I have questions about and hope someone can help.

1. When I use the animation effects, the menu pops up above the bottom panel bar. Removing the animation restored this. Is there any way to keep the menu flush with the bottom panel using the window animation features?

2. When these changes were made, I lost my desktop icons. These however they never returned to normal when I changed the settings back to the default install settings. They will reappear when I open the menu and click the «Home Folder» from the menu but will not show up otherwise unless I click that folder. Can this be fixed without having to reinstall the OS? The install was difficult as I had to install from a USB drive as this laptop does not have a cd or dvd drive. I had to change the BIOS setting from Legacy to the EU. something in order to see the USB at boot. That is a conversation for another thread though. lol.

Thanks in advance,
Michelle

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how to add program icons

Post by lokiilox » Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:10 pm

i have minecraft on linux mint 18.1 kde on a laptop but it has the reg jar file icon on it. how do i add my own icon to it and other programs that dont have icons like Ocenaudio for instance.

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Re: how to add program icons

Post by ralplpcr » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:55 pm

You’ll need to create a symbolic link, or a «launcher» to your .jar file in order to customize the icon. The .jar file apparently already has it’s association with Java, so you can’t change that icon without changing the file association or the icon for Java — — and that’s probably not something you want to deal with.

To create a sym link, you’ll need the path of where the .jar file resides as well as where you want the sym link to display. So if you have your Minecraft .jar file saved in /home/lokiilox and want the shortcut to appear on your desktop, you’d enter in Konsole:

ln -s /home/lokiilox/minecraft.jar /home/lokiilox/Desktop

You should now have a generic Minecraft shortcut on your desktop.
Right-click on it, and select «Properties».
You should be able to click on the generic icon in the properties window, and choose your new icon to display.

I’d recommend a .PNG file of roughly 64×64 or 128×128 pixels. You can use bigger — — it will be resized to a point, but obviously you want it to fit in with your other icons.

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Re: how to add program icons

Post by phd21 » Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:41 pm

1.) Java Apps: With any Java application, make sure you have Java runtimes installed, I usually install Java 7,8, 9, and Open Java 8.

You can easily create a menu item or desktop shortcut launcher and add icons.

If you create a menu item, right click menu key, edit applications, pick a category, click new item, fill in the Name, at the Command box, just browse to the Java file, add «java -jar » in front of it. It sometimes helps to also add the work path (folder location of the program’s file)

Then you can right click that menu item to add it to your desktop or activities.

For the Desktop, just right click «Create New», Link to application, on the Application tab at the Command box, just browse to the file, add «java -jar » in front of it, click apply, and okay. It sometimes helps to also add the work path (folder location of the program’s file).

To add an icon, right click the new desktop shortcut, click properties, click the icon place holder to browse to the icon image you want to use. For a menu item, click the icon place holder and browse to the image file.

Tip: Java «jar» files are archive files that can be right clicked and extracted, and they may have an icon in the extracted folders somewhere.

java -jar JavaApplicationName.jar

2.) There are easy to install Linux «.deb» files for Ocenaudio in the link below. For Linux Mint 18.1 I used the «debian 8» Ubuntu 15.04, 64 bit, ran the install, but afterwards I also had to run the console terminal commands below which completed the installation and added it to the menu.

3.) There are various applications and various installation methods, some create desktop shortcut launchers, and others require the user to create them and they can vary depending upon the type of installation files, some are «AppImage» (./application.AppImage), bash script (./application.sh), etc. You can ask here.

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install icon on desktop

Post by pallmall12 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 7:17 pm

I figure that I should start there for i am new. it runs until the end when it says no root? thanks for your help.

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Re: install icon on desktop

Post by WharfRat » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:10 pm

Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum

Your topic subject and description is awfully vague

I think you’re going to have to elaborate a bit in order to get some help

Re: install icon on desktop

Post by pallmall12 » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:56 pm

Sorry about that, I am very new at this.There is a icon on desktop that says (install) I have seen it after I down loaded linux mint. I got away from windows7 telling me my windows are fake (no key) so I came to this and have no ideal what I am doing. the disk that i downloaded this windows don’t want me to have it. Even the updates don’t want to help. I came to the forums to see if others are having the same problems. I think that I got a bad down load on windows? I would like to redown load mint on my usb 8gig but i didn’t see a way to do it so i used old dvd disk. Do you think that I have to reinstall windows? Thank you for your time and of your help.

Re: install icon on desktop

Post by WharfRat » Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:46 pm

pallmall12 wrote: I think that I got a bad down load on windows? I would like to redown load mint on my usb 8gig but i didn’t see a way to do it so i used old dvd disk. Do you think that I have to reinstall windows? Thank you for your time and of your help.

You don’t need windows to install Mint, i.e., Linux Mint, or any other Linux distro for that matter, can be the only OS on the computer

You would however have to have windows or have access to another computer with with windows or Linux installed in order to download the iso file and prepare the media.

It is possible that you didn’t prepare the media correctly. This post viewtopic.php?f=42&t=14209&start=20#p737641 links to a youtube video on how to prepare the live media from windows and Linux.

I don’t know where you went to download the iso file, but you should use this site https://www.linuxmint.com/

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Re: install icon on desktop

Post by austin.texas » Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:00 pm

pallmall12 wrote: I figure that I should start there for i am new. it runs until the end when it says no root?

When you install Mint, you can chose the root partition during the installation.
Double-click on the partition you want for Mint’s operating system ( the root partition ), and chose /

Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, Quad core AMD A8-3870 with Radeon HD Graphics 6550D, 8GB DDR3, Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
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