Hello, I just installed v14.0 on Mint 16, but irritatingly if I rename icons under Trinity I find it has screwed around with my icons if I then log into xfce. Is this because the two desktop environments share a config file somewhere? I've found this recent habit of DE's to 'bleed' across to one another quite annoying. Can I separate the two completely by creating two files dealing with icon properties, then direct each DE to use its own particular one? --
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Hello, I just installed v14.0 on Mint 16, but irritatingly if I rename icons under Trinity I find it has screwed around with my icons if I then log into xfce. Is this because the two desktop environments share a config file somewhere? I've found this recent habit of DE's to 'bleed' across to one another quite annoying. Can I separate the two completely by creating two files dealing with icon properties, then direct each DE to use its own particular one?
Can you describe the problem in further detail? For instance, what exactly do you mean by "rename icons under Trinity"?
Many users are not aware of this, but there is a cross-desktop standard that applies to almost all desktops called the XDG specification. In a nutshell it specifies how various desktops should handle common elements such as desktop shortcuts, icons, etc. This standardisation is what prevents a user from having to create, for example, completely separate desktop shortcuts for each desktop environment they use. A side effect of this standardisation is that the various desktops are somewhat bound together such that changing icons, desktop shortcuts, etc. in one desktop may change the others as well.
If you can provide more information on what you are seeing and what you want to see we may be able to help.
Tim
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