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How to change icon sizes on desktop?
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 22:21
by DaveDX
How do I change the icon size on the desktop? When I go into Rox and pick a smaller icon, it still displays the same size with less resolution. I've tried all the settings in Rox.
Dave
Posted: Fri 23 Mar 2007, 22:59
by alienjeff
Open each individual icon in mtPaint and rescale the icon to 24x24. I suggest "saving as" to an appropriate name, so as to have both the original icon and the new half-size icon.
Then go to your desktop, right click on the original icon, select "set icon" and enter the new icon name.
Restart JWM (or maybe X - I don't remember which) and you'll be all set!
You can check out my half-sized icons here:
http://alienjeff.gotdns.com/screenie10.png
(I still have to resize the "lock" and "trash" icons ...)
Posted: Sat 24 Mar 2007, 00:44
by DaveDX
I'm not in front of my Linux box right now so I can't try that (again). Something else is going on. The icons are getting stretched to the same size no matter what I do. I should note that this is in PizzaPup 3.0.1 with icewm.
Dave
Posted: Sun 25 Mar 2007, 05:31
by Bruce B
Dave,
I think you can solve some problems in ROX options (preferences). Have you done anything with this yet?
Bruce
Posted: Sun 25 Mar 2007, 11:50
by DaveDX
OK - I think I have the problem solved. In ROX, under Options>Thumbnails>Filer Windows, if Show image thumbnails is set, Icon displayed in the Pinboard is auto scaled. If it's not set, the icon will display in it's original size. I consider that a little odd because I don't consider the display of an icon in the pinboard a thumbnail situation. I think the behavior is sticky. If I unset the Show image thumbnails, change an icon and then reset the Show image thumbnails, the icon stays in its original resolution. I would tried this sooner but the nomenclature led me to believe this switch was only for Filer windows.
BTW - I was finally able to wrestle my laptop back from my son today. "Hey dad, this Linux stuff is FAST!".
Dave
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Posted: Sun 25 Mar 2007, 12:54
by DaveDX
If show image thumbnails is set, and an icon is dragged and dropped, it will autoscale until ROX is restarted. A little strange but solved. I don't recall this behavior on previous Puppies. This being PizzaPup 3.0.1.
Dave
Posted: Sun 25 Mar 2007, 17:30
by Pizzasgood
It might be from using Rox 2.5 rather than 1.2 like Puppy 2.12 and earlier used.
