Change link icons?

ander

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Location: Canada

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Friday, March 31st 2006, 10:30am

Is there a way to change the icon used by a symbolic link to an executable? The gear icon is nice, but I have links to several apps on my desktop and I'd like to make them a bit more program-specific. Thanks!

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bram85

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Location: Eindhoven

Occupation: Software Engineer

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 11:16am

RE: Change link icons?

You should use *.desktop files instead of symbolic links. Because they allow you to set the desired icons, while symlinks do not. Just create a new shortcut to a new application from the context menu on your desktop (right mouse, Create New, Link To Application)

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ander

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Friday, May 5th 2006, 8:49am

RE: Change link icons?

Excellent---thanks, Bram!

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