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Argolance · Posted: Thu 05 Jul 2012, 10:53 Post subject: About globicons... [SOLVED]

Hello,
Don't know if it is the right place to ask this question...
When and by what is the file "globicons" created/updated? I red somewhere that this file comes here or there, following the puppy version and age...
Sometime inside /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons or inside /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons, sometimes both of these directories. Shocked

Please, could somebody give me some explanation?

Thank you a lot.
Cordialement.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2320

It gets created the first time you change the icon displayed for any file or folder. The latter file location you mention, '/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons' is for older versions of the ROX-Filer. /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons is for newer versions of rox.

Argolance · Posted: Thu 05 Jul 2012, 13:36 Post subject:

Hello amigo,
Thank you for replying!

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 2420 Location: Germany

Hi.

Here is a script, i do use in LazY Puppy to set an icon automatically to a created LazY Puppy run-script (the scripts that runs applications from sfs and loads the sfs automatically)

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 652 Location: Staffordshire

I've found Amigo's explanation to be correct. Changing an icon is producing a change in globicons. This is on Wary 5.3.
Can I ask how you are checking for changes?
I opened up globicons in Geany. I added an icon to a binary I dumped on the desktop, then did a search for it (in Geany), and checked the name of the icon.

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2320

globicons data is for filer windows -desktop icons are in the pinboard conf file.

Argolance · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2012, 05:52 Post subject:

Hello,
Thank you for replying.

Now I understand. If I change or set the icon of any /usr/bin/defaultprogram (for example), modification is saved to globicons.

What embarrassed me is that latest Wary/Racy5 don't have globicons file inside /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/ according to the newest rox releases, but inside /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons.

Thank you RSH for the script which can be useful!
Fortunately, it seems that when rox doesn't find globicons inside .config it tries to search it inside Choices. The contrary is not true though! Here was a lack of understanding for me.