I'm Running Antix 16.2 with a Rox-Fluxbox desktop. So my question is ,can this be done and if it can what do I need to do to accomplish this. Thank You folks.
I do want these Text listing on the desktop take me to the proscribed app.
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jbanderPosts: 54
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skidooPosts: 1,445
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Topic was cross-posted to MX Linux forum.
I've already replied over there
I've already replied over there
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Rox pinboard does not offer a"text-only" option for pinboard icons.
As you may have already discovered, rox does, however, provide that option for icon objects displayed within the rox panel. You could (and I personally do) adopt the habit of dragging items to the panel, never (or only rarely) to the pinboard. In light of prior antix.freeforums.org discussions, I guess you're aware that you can launch multiple concurrent roxpanels (top+botomm+left+right) and that you can use the DesktopMenu item"Toggle RoxPanel on/off" to toggle visibility of the default roxpanel ~~ independent of whether or not the rox pinboard is running.
As an alternative, you can check out the
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. It provides a desktop-resident DnD droptarget and provides options enabling you to set any given item to display as"text only" (and/or displayed using a colorized, bolded textlabel)
A further alternative would be to investigate whether some other (spacefm, pcmanfm)"desktop icon manager" does provide a no-images option. If you find one that does (I'd be interested to hear), use that instead of rox to manage your desktop.
If you're suitably motivated, you might perform a custom
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to achieve the desired no-images behavior.
Edit the
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, and supply a hardcoded value 1 for the"iwidth" and"iheight" variables... then rebuild, intall, and test.
After the change, you should specifically investigate (test):
if a desktop-resident icon item is expected to bear an"emblem" (e.g. a dragged symlink, vs a dragged dir or .desktop file), is the emblem correctly displayed?
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figosdevPosts: 148
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you could also try turning thumbnails off and finding the relevant icons and changing them to transparent 1x1 pixel icons.
when i used rox i thought i achieved this effect. icon spacing in rox is partially determined by icon size, at least it was, so pasting the url of a 1x1 icon into the settings for each item on the pinboard should basically do what you want.
when i used rox i thought i achieved this effect. icon spacing in rox is partially determined by icon size, at least it was, so pasting the url of a 1x1 icon into the settings for each item on the pinboard should basically do what you want.