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-iak-

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Registered: 2017-10-30

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Can't change icon to a .desktop file

Hello, I just created a .desktop file, it only contains the string «Exec="thunar"». When I try to change the icon, I got this error:

which more or less means "keys file does not begin with a group"

How can I solve?

Last edited by -iak- (2022-01-18 23:31:04)

-iak-

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Re: Can't change icon to a .desktop file

EDIT: I had troubles with the BBCode, now it works

ToZ

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Re: Can't change icon to a .desktop file

Hello, I just created a .desktop file

How? Did you create it manually?

, it only contains the string «Exec="thunar"».

So the only content in this file is this string? The desktop spec calls for a specific file format.

Probably best to use "exo-desktop-item-edit" to create the desktop file - it will create the proper format.

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Skaperen

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Re: Can't change icon to a .desktop file

how did you try to change the icon?