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Been playing a lot with linux over the years and finally found the perfect distro. No bloat or a lot of eye candy and super fast. Reminds me of the old DOS days.
I am running Slackware64 14.1 on a Lenovo Think pad. I am using SeaMonkey web browser and their email client. The email icon is very tiny compared to the rest. Is there a way to make it larger or perhaps change the icon to something different that is bigger.
Hope I am posting my question in the right place or suggest where I could looks.

Hello alli.

Thanks for the compliment and welcome aboard!

For email, you could use this nice ThunderBird Logo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_T ... ,_2018.svg
The ThunderBird and Seamonkey programs are related, so
it's not really cheating.

Also, you'll find various sizes of the seamonkey icon in this
seamonkey directory; < .../seamonkey/chrome/icons/default >
There's one of the "Messenger window" there too. You could associate
it with seamonkey's mail app.

If it's not exactly to your liking, you can edit it in mtpaint.
Hint: typical size of ROX desktop icons is 48x48 pixels.

IHTH.

Do you know how to change a desktop icon?

hi bigpup
Yes you hit it on the head. I have no idea. Unfortunately as you get old the attention span gets smaller and so does my patience.So used to having all these little utilities in some of the distros and also the fear of getting flamed for asking stupid question.

On this forum, there are no stupid questions!
If you have a question or problem, ask!!

Icons on the desktop to run stuff.

how to change the icon
Right click on a desktop icon.
Select file->set icon....
Keep this selection window open.

Click on desktop file icon to open Rox file manager.
Use this to navigate to some icons.
Here are some locations to find icons.
/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps
/usr/share/icons
Also look in a directory for a specific program.
(they may have icons there for that program)

With Rox window open to the icon location and the set icon window open.
After you find an icon in Rox.
Drag and drop the icon from the Rox window into the open set icon window.
Be sure to have it set to only for this file

Rox shows the size as to how the icon will look.
In general the size it shows in Rox is idea of how it will look as a desktop icon.

You can use any icon, not just a specific program icon.

Note:
Navigating around in Rox, is sometimes a hunting trip for an icon, but there are several places to find icons.

G'day alll,

You may also find some mail icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/puppy/

Try an svg icon which is scalable without losing sharpness, unlike some other graphics formats which get fuzzier the bigger you make them.

Or browse the net for email icons and copy any you like to /usr/share/pixmaps/ and follow bigpup's guide above.

David S.

Be careful what you wish for.

I'm not sure what icon you have for Seamokey. I like the attached which is at 96 pixels. You can Right-Click it, Save Image As, open it in mtpaint or gimp and scale it up. Maybe rox won't scale it back too much.

seamonkey icons diverse

I'm gonna throw my hat in too. These address KDE:

https://www.techrepublic.com/how-do-i-create-desktop-icons-in-kde-and-gnome/

https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index. ... #msg272856

Thanks for all the help and info much appreciated.

Attached is a seamonkey icon which more accurately reflects our "Blue Marble".

Affected by the heightened sensitivity my country is experiencing, I took a close look at the icon I previously provided and realized how much I assumed, took for granted and failed to question.

As a consequence of improper education, Americans have a distorted view of their place on 'The Blue Marble'. Only recently have American students been exposed to Winkel-tripel maps*, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection. The United States is neither at the center of the World, nor occupies a commanding coverage of its surface. Oceans cover over 70%.

Hopefully, this icon does a better job.

You are, of course, free to download one of the many photos from space and GIMP the attached to give your particular neck of the woods greater prominence.

* It wasn't part of my education. I originally referred to Mercator Maps, which I had occasionally noticed. After posting, I remembered that there were other ways of dealing with the problems of projecting a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface. The paragraph was edited to reflect what I now consider the compromise best able to present the most accurate appreciation of physical reality 'at a glance' --that is without undertaking a detailed analysis and consideration of the "ands, ifs and buts"; and especially not the political sensibilities of the butts.

People?

Euh... seamonkeys are a type of shrimp.

Definition of sea monkey

: a brine shrimp (Artemia salina) that hatches from dormant encysted eggs and is sometimes raised in aquariums

Source

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys

They are NOT a variety of primates that frolic in the sea!

BFN

[quote="musher0"]People?
Euh... seamonkeys are a type of shrimp.[quote]

My late feline, Bandit, would have been surprised to discover that Cats is a "a 2019 musical fantasy film based on the 1981 stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T. S. Eliot." Wikipedia.

On the other hand, while phonetically identical, 'Katz' is a relatively common name among Jews who --with a rather strong statistical chance of genetically proving it-- can claim descent from Aaron, the reputed brother of Moses: Katz being a contraction of the two Hebrew words Cohen-Tzadic --Righteous Priest [Well, actually Priest, Righteous].

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

For purests who insist on actual seamonkeys, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1Meg6cQ_Q and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84HSEf0-8xs
with a clue as to how they got that way, http://alfre.dk/monkeys-washing-potatoes/

alli wrote:Been playing a lot with linux over the years and finally found the perfect distro.........
I am running Slackware64 14.1 on a Lenovo Think pad............
Hope I am posting my question in the right place or suggest where I could looks.

I am not sure about slackware64 14.1, but if you look for /usr/share/applications you will find .desktop files. if you open some of these files in a text editor, you should be able to see which size icons are used on most of the desktop. look for a line such as Icon=seamonkey xxxx

it points to the icon in another location and if the xxx is 24 or 32 or 48 or some such number that may indicate it's size, you may be able to edit that line to point to a more appropriately sized icon.

It's always a good idea to make a copy of any configuration file before attempting edits, in case things don't work out as hoped.