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[Semme]

Npierce- *color* meant for Greengeek. Thanks all the same for your investigation and follow-up..

[greengeek]

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Oh_My_God!

Thanks so much guys. It was definitely the text colour. I can hardly believe that it was possible to get this sussed so quickly.

I've still got a problem with a couple of strange icons but I should be able to figure that out, and at least now I understand what caused the problem.

Thanks for the tips about frugal Semme. I will start keeping backups before I add programs in future.

Why didn't I use Slickpet? Good question. The truth is I had no idea what it does...

I guess I will give it a try

I will also try to report the jre pet.

Many, many thanks!!

[Semme]

Sometimes the simplest oversight.. well, good! Good to hear it's over- at least for you. You got Slickpet sorted?

[npierce]

Camouflaged captions. Hidden in plain sight like a black cat hunting on a moonless night.

Yes, greengeek, it's good that you will be taking Semme's advice: frequent backups are good -- especially before installing things.

You're welcome. Glad my guess helped.

[NETTKNUT]

Thanks to npierce for showing how to change the foreground colour of the icons. I decided to make mine green as that reduces the chance of losing either white or black as they are complementary colours in this situation. I look upon this problem as being 'fixed' rather than solved as we need to get to the bottom of the trouble - was it Slacko, Libre Office or another culprit? I'm still a newbie so its beyond my pay grade or whatever.

[greengeek]

[Semme]

Rt-clk your icons > file > set icon > show'n drag'm in.. Corresponding desktop files are in /usr/share/applications.

[greengeek]

Hmmm. Slickpet. I am sure there used to be a slickpet icon on the desktop. Now it's gone. Another after effect of the evil pet bug.

Went into the setup menu and tried slickpet that way and successfully installed gnome games as a trial.

Lesson learnt. Start with slickpet when looking for add-ons.
(I will try the icon fix now too. Thanks.)

[greengeek]

[Semme]

Pardon me- icons get dragged into that box.. Desktop files you drag onto the desktop.

Your console icon is here: /usr/local/lib/X11pixmaps/console48.png

Is there a skype.desktop file in /usr/share/applications?

Slickpet is Quickpet. Drag from /usr/sbin..

[greengeek]

Found the pixmaps as you described, and dragged calc and console to their appropriate places, and also dragged quickpet from sbin.

No, there is no Skype desktop program in usr/share/applications. Instead I dragged the skpye icon from /root/my-applications/bin/skype_static/icons (I remembered that is where I originally stored the unzipped skype files)

I noticed a strange thing though - when I look at all the icons in X11/pixmaps, the smaller ones don’t look small, they just look fuzzy and blurred/pixelated (as if they have been artificially expanded to the 48x48 size). I remember seeing a forum entry somewhere that mentioned this type of thing. Something about “adding spaces” in a file somwhere. Can’t find that post at the moment. Maybe this is another ROX issue to do with displaying things.

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[Semme]

Rox icon rendering shouldn't concern you.. Spaces in file naming however is something you'll wanna get away from..

[NETTKNUT]

To greengeek: I installed Libre Office from slickpet 'sfs get' tab.
I had to install JRE separately. I have not had any other problems and am not using skype. Hope this helps.

[greengeek]

[Nepozvan]

I have problem with clicking on icons.

Some time i must clik 2 or 3 times on icon to open or execute it.

What is that?