create folders with an icon [Solved]

[Melber]

and I thought I was done fiddling with folder icons...

The "place a folder image within the folder itself method" works for me in xfce. I used folder.png. It required logout/login to show the new folder icon.

However, I can't get it to work in fluxbox. @dolphin_oracle is there some relevant xfce and/or tumbler stuff missing in mxfb? @i_ri Is your screenshot from xfce or mxfb?

[i_ri]

Hello Melber
fluxbox. plain folder in toolbar. thunar is changed to script icon
the .svg can rename png and it works. a .png named png does not work. they both work with rename jpg.
dot .folder.jpg or folder.jpg immediate change.
look. there is idesk icon and mx dock launcher and
shows .folder.jpg is really the .svg.


i tried registering a converted png with xdg resource install, but did not get it right.

[dolphin_oracle]

and I thought I was done fiddling with folder icons...

The "place a folder image within the folder itself method" works for me in xfce. I used folder.png. It required logout/login to show the new folder icon.

However, I can't get it to work in fluxbox. @dolphin_oracle is there some relevant xfce and/or tumbler stuff missing in mxfb? @i_ri Is your screenshot from xfce or mxfb?

strangely enough I was working in fluxbox when I tried it. png wouldn't work, I only got it to work with jpg. I didn't try renaming like @i_ri did above.

[Aronticuz]

and I thought I was done fiddling with folder icons...

The "place a folder image within the folder itself method" works for me in xfce. I used folder.png. It required logout/login to show the new folder icon.

However, I can't get it to work in fluxbox. @dolphin_oracle is there some relevant xfce and/or tumbler stuff missing in mxfb? @i_ri Is your screenshot from xfce or mxfb?

strangely enough I was working in fluxbox when I tried it. png wouldn't work, I only got it to work with jpg. I didn't try renaming like @i_ri did above.

In an environment like MX Linux it seems a good place to try things that rest of linux world is not (yet?) interested in?

[i_ri]

hello
method for thunar works also in caja.
no real gain for dolphin reading that .desktop file for icon, because it changes only in one place in home folder, not global.

[Melber]

Nope, so far I can't get it working in mxfb.

@i_ri Just to make sure I'm not missing something, here's what I'm doing

1. Create new directory "~/melbertest"
2. Copy an svg folder icon to "~/melbertest"
3. Rename image file as folder.png or folder.jpg or .folder.jpg

I've tried starting with different svg's, eg. usr/share/icons/Papirus/48x48/places/folder-green.svg or usr/share/icons/Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes/scalable/places/folder-linux.svg

I've also tried creating a proper png and jpg by opening the svg in inkscape and exporting as folder.png and folder.jpg to ~/melbertest. Didn't work either.

[dolphin_oracle]

Nope, so far I can't get it working in mxfb.

@i_ri Just to make sure I'm not missing something, here's what I'm doing

1. Create new directory "~/melbertest"
2. Copy an svg folder icon to "~/melbertest"
3. Rename image file as folder.png or folder.jpg or .folder.jpg

I've tried starting with different svg's, eg. usr/share/icons/Papirus/48x48/places/folder-green.svg or usr/share/icons/Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes/scalable/places/folder-linux.svg

I've also tried creating a proper png and jpg by opening the svg in inkscape and exporting as folder.png and folder.jpg to ~/melbertest. Didn't work either.

not sure its related, but I did manually install tumbler, which does thumbnailing under Xfce.

[i_ri]

trade Public for Script
/changed user dirs publicshare named it Script;
rename folder-publicshare,
rename icon folder-script to folder-publicshare.
result this
the script icon is in fluxbox iconbar for thunar Script directory shown empty.

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Melber. Your steps resemble success here on two systems.
cover.jpg?

[AVLinux]

@dolphin_oracle Does tumbler's daemon on a non-XFCE4 system require a manual autostart? Not that it matters because Enlightenment is unsupported but I also can't get the 'folder.jpg' hack to work and I have installed tumbler and it's extra Plugins... Perhaps @Melber and I are missing the same puzzle piece?

[dolphin_oracle]

@dolphin_oracle Does tumbler's daemon on a non-XFCE4 system require a manual autostart? Not that it matters because Enlightenment is unsupported but I also can't get the 'folder.jpg' hack to work and I have installed tumbler and it's extra Plugins... Perhaps @Melber and I are missing the same puzzle piece?

I think it might start on demand by thunar. not 100% on that one, but I don't have an autostart entry for it on fluxbox.

the "fred" folder in the attached screenshot has a copied svg icon, renamed folder.jpg in the folder.