Could it be, that you have a permission problem? Who owns the desktop or icons? Am Sonntag, 11. M�rz 2018 schrieb Danny W. Burdick: > These are the fish I can think of... > > What does Trinity Control Center say? Can you change the icon theme there? > > Thierry > > > Ah...you've opened up a symptom.....good...good... > Found none of the tde installed icons sets would let me change an icon on the desktop using kdesktop/properties/select-icon > But two that had been externally installed worked fine...gnome and adwait > > Using Trinity Control Center as root it allowed me to remove all other themes except I wanted to try and rescue crystalSVG so I left it > and exhaustively compared and investigated...but no obvious issues with permissions or missing pieces. > > I just wish someone with in-depth knowledge of this issue could tell me where the path or symlink is that tells > Select - Icon Kdesktop where to look for those crystalSVG icons... > > I'm pretty sure if I installed an external downloaded theme say the new crystalSVG it would work...but hate to do that... > I even reinstalled > tdebase-data-trinity (crystalSVG actual icons) > tdeartwork (all the others except mono) > tde-icons-mono-trinity (monochrome) > > And it puts them all back but the system still cannot find them... > > When you go to desktop and have the system set for any of the tde installed themes now > and you pick out an icon on the desktop > you select properties > and then click on that icon > boom lala land....cursor forever...even let it run overnight... > > but if you switch to and externally installed theme > it goes right to the different locations...and shows those icons for you to visually select and change as you wish > > In all folders > > /actions > /animations > /apps > /categories > /devices > /emblems > etc....etc....etc... > > Danny > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...