Folder icons with a green dot. How to do it?

[amigo]

May be a bug. It's a feature, I'd say. I mean, it's just one of those things that rox does arbitrarily, like setting the text-color to green for any executables.

[fernan]

I have the PNG, set the icon from the contextual menu, the image is copied into the dir, but the icon doesn't change. Restarted the system a couple of times since yesterday, no change, the .DirIcon file is there, but the icon doesn't change.

I'll forget about this. Too complex just to change one icon, I can't imagine how complex will be to mark folders with colors.
This is the image in question: (I removed the dot at the beginning of the name and added png extension to avoid problems when uploading the file)

[MochiMoppel]

I have the PNG, set the icon from the contextual menu, the image is copied into the dir, but the icon doesn't change.

Works fine for me. Check directory /usr/local/apps. If the ROX apps in this directory display their .DirIcons your icon should work.

I'll forget about this. Too complex just to change one icon, I can't imagine how complex will be to mark folders with colors.

There is nothing complex about it and a very simple script could make it painless. 1) Select directories you want to mark and 2) drag them to a desktop icon, representing your DirIcon. That's all. Provided of course that your ROX-Filer works as expected.

[fernan]

It seems the icon works on some folders, but not on others:

In /root, i could change one folder, but in /mnt/home/Sync, not. The 2 dirs with BOLD have the icon changed, .DirIcon file inside, but not shown.

Never mind, I'll leave it alone, spent too many time already for this simple task.

[belham2]

I just wanted to say "thanks" for this thread, and 'thank you' to Step and Mochi for explaining about .DirIcons.

I never realized it was this easy to set them up. My first experience doing it, inside my Green Machine (peebee's latest Artfulpup).