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ke4nt1

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Posted: June 21 2004,16:09

I took henrique's ayttm.dsl , and added a smiley desktop icon.
The Mrs. wanted a "point & click" way to run ayttm , as she
uses it to keep in touch with all her family.
See DSL repository - named ayttm2.dsl

Thanks henrique,

73
ke4nt

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Posted: June 22 2004,02:00

ke4nt, how did you add that icon??? I've been wondering how it's done.

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Posted: June 22 2004,03:18

if you look at the .dsl packages that have desktop icons they have what appears to be a tree that leads to 'damnsmall' but is empty (/home/damnsmall/(nothing here!!!!). What you don't see is there is a . folder, i.e. hidden, that is used for the desktop. the ".xtdesktop" folder has 2 files needed for an icon to appear.

1) A png of the icon itsself
2) A lnk file that describes the icon and tells linux what to run.

Look at the new dsl and you will see what i mean. I couldn't figure it out untill i looked at these two chat files and found that hidden folder. Hope this helps

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ke4nt1

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Posted: June 22 2004,04:48

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there is a . folder, i.e. hidden, that is used for the desktop. the ".xtdesktop" folder has 2 files needed for an icon to appear.

1) A png of the icon itsself
2) A lnk file that describes the icon and tells linux what to run.

All the icons for your entire desktop are stored in your
.xtdesktop folder under /home/damnsmall.

The icons need not be .png format, as .jpg or .gif works as well.

I simply add the necessary files to the unzipped and untarred
.dsl contents, and re-tar and re-gzip it back up.

Usually good to check file ownership as well while your in there.

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ke4nt

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