Making an Opera icon in desktop

Forum: Apps
Topic: Making an Opera icon in desktop
started by: juan

Posted by juan on Dec. 26 2003,04:01

I have installed Opera 6.03 and I would like to know how to make an icon in the desktop. If someone could write the whole script would be great.

juan

Posted by DrWho on Dec. 26 2003,11:38

All the icons and lnk scripts are in /home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop

This is the script for xMMs

table Icon
Type: Program
Caption: xMMs
Command: xmms
Icon: .xtdesktop/xmms
X: 25
Y: 270
end

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Caption = name
Command = path to application plus arguments may just be opera or /usr/bin/opera
Icon = path to icon
X: = pixels from left hand side of your screen
Y: = pixels from the top of your screen

save as opera.lnk in /home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 26 2003,19:15

Juan,

Actually, someone did write a whole script :-)

See the message post below for details:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....2;t=90; >

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 10 2004,02:41

Well, I have made a stand-alone version of cbagger01's script:
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< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/icon_opera >
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To use this script, download it into /home/damnsmall
then #cp icon_opera .icon_opera
next, #chmod 755 .icon_opera
Now, you need to check your path to the icon on your system.
Look at cbagger01's post just prior for the script that he uses
and use that path in your script if mine is not pointing to your icon.
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This script can make an icon for any application, if you have an icon
somewhere to use. Perhaps you can find one on the internet, download
it, and use that. Who knows?
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I tested the script, and found it to work, as long as I have Opera installed
on my DSL system (through a restore from backup.tar.gz, of course)
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Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 10 2004,03:58

Oh, and make sure that this part of the script points to the script you want to use with that icon.
The .start_opera script used in this line:
echo ' Command: sh /home/damnsmall/.start_opera' >> /home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop/opera.lnk
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However, on my machines, I use:
echo ' Command: sh /home/damnsmall/.boot_opera' >> /home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop/opera.lnk
To use the boot_opera script I have here:
< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/boot_opera >
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That setup goes with my other scripts (adapted from cbagger01's work)
and referenced here:
< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto >
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So, in making your own icons on the desktop for various other
applications, you need to be aware of that, and the path to the icon
in the first line, and name the icon a unique name, so as to not overwrite
any others in the icon directory.
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Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 24 2004,01:44

In DSL version 6, my opera setup from DSL 0.5.3.1 went south...
Opera will boot, but most web pages are unreadable. That's very odd, really, as most pages I have written for rapidweather.com seemed to work, but almost everything else, such as < http://www.usatoday.com > did not. I do use very simple html, so that may be why. All the big commercial pages from Yahoo, etc. were a mess. Made Opera unusable.
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We need some more Opera install scripts that will work with DSL 6. My scripts worked in 0.5.3.1, but the tarball made on those systems won't work in DSL 6. I was able to get MozillaFirebird back ok, but not Opera.
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I finally had to delete it (using emelfm) , and just use Moz as my browser.
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. I still have computers with DSL 0.5.3.1 on them, and both Opera and Moz work well.
I am experimenting with 6, to see what can be done with it. (or to it)
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As I mentioned elsewhere, I had to put wvdial (from dsl 0.5.3.1)back in 6 as a restore item,
my modem won't work with the default DSL 6 modem setup, cannot be
detected.
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Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 24 2004,03:08

The problem is not with the Opera install script or the Opera program.

The problem appears to be that version 0.6 of DSL doesn't provide Opera with the required fonts for normal web browsing use.

I don't know any more details besides the fact that the most common fonts no longer display any more.

Stick to version 0.5.3.1 for now until the DSL developers can come up with a solution for a future version.

Version 0.6 seems to be a major revision of DSL because it was rebuilt from a new version of Knoppix. Bugs like these should be expected, although it is my hope that they will be addressed soon, like when Knoppix undergoes a major revision followed by a few quick bugfix releases.

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 24 2004,05:50

I never would have guessed that 0.6 has a font problem. When I viewed my local Opera home page, everything looked normal. Here is the web version of the page:
< http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/web.html >
All I did was use MozillaFirebird to save the page, web.html and a directory, web_files, in /home/damnsmall, and used Scite to remove the counter, and had Opera pick it up as it's home page when Opera booted up. It looked normal, fonts and all. The fun began when I began to surf the links on the page. Opera could not do a lot of the pages correctly, fontwise. However, when I went to some of my pages, they appeared correctly, but not all of them.
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So, for Opera 6.12, I need to use DSL 0.5.3.1, which I have on other machines. I am just testing DSL 6 on this box, and the main change that I have made, is to include wvdial in the tarball for restoration, and some small changes to the menu. I do have to use a filetool.sh of my own, and place that in the
Windows partition with the /knoppix directory. I do a quasi-install of DSL after I run it off the CDROM a while, it runs faster. Main reason for having my own filetool.sh is that the default one sometimes backs up a minimal filetool.lst, from
/home/damnsmall, and that can leave me without a full backup/restore tarball, so I have to fix that before shutting down the machine.
Other than that, I am doing alright with DSL 6.
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Without going into details, those Opera install scripts seemed to go crazy running in DSL 6 for some reason, nothing was where it was supposed to be, etc. , so that alone is a good reason for Opera fans to stick to 0.5.3.1.
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Posted by John on Feb. 24 2004,08:35

Does Opera give any diagnostic information about which fonts it is missing?

If so, pleas post it here.

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 24 2004,13:38

Was not able to determine that prior to my "uninstalling opera" on 6, the pages
only showed horizontal lines and a few images when viewed.

Posted by John on Feb. 24 2004,19:34

We don't think it's a font issue but probably a lib one.

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 25 2004,02:20

More details:
Even Opera's help file displays without text, and also if you use Opera to browse local directories. Only the folders appear, not any text.
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Although the fonts do not show, the missing or incorrect libraries reason is probably correct, but it's over my head to fix it.
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Opera works fine in 0.5.3.1, so I use it there. I'm on my Toshiba Laptop now, and
using 0.5.3.1. Earlier, I tried 6.0 on this laptop, and the modem would not get detected (no wvdial in 6) and when I restored off the usb drive (from 0.5.3.1), I could find and run MozillaFirebird, and Opera, but Opera had it's problems, and is unuseable like that. I don't recommend using a restore tarball made with 0.5.3.1 on DSL 6. Things get put in the wrong places, etc.
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The modem thing is serious, no wvdial, this is an expensive pcmcia modem that will work in wvdial, and in MS-DOS/Arachne 1.70, which requires a hardware modem, like Linux does, to work. It's a 3Com Megahertz 56K cellular Modem, Model 3CSM556, and cost over $200.00. This is no simple winmodem....
DSL 6 should be able to detect it, 0.5.3.1's wvdial does, I'm using it now to make this post.
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Posted by John on Feb. 25 2004,06:11

Rapidweather, pppconfig dosen't work with your modem? You may have to issue an 'ifdown eth0' first.