desktop icon

[lelelelkorgpt]

how to have desktop icon with hidamari's wallpaper ?

[MinaPoppins]

If you're using Mint there's no support for icons. Some users have tried making scripts to push icons on top of the wallpaper, no guarantee of them working
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[lelelelkorgpt]

I am on ubuntu mate not on mint
Do you have a link of the script?

If you're using Mint there's no support for icons. Some users have tried making scripts to push icons on top of the wallpaper, no guarantee of them working
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[MinaPoppins]

The 4 hyperlinks I shared are the scripts, you might need to tweak them a little to make it work since you're on Ubuntu, I honestly haven't even tried or looked at them myself

[Xethy]

Hi - i just wanted to drop by for a second. The scripts are meant for the "nemo-desktop" application that handles the icon on mint. As far as i am aware; ubuntu mate uses "Caja"?

I played a bit around with killing and restarting Nemo-desktop for a while (hence my script in the other thread mentioned)

I got something you could try; but i have no clue if it will work since i have neither caja, nor Ubuntu to test it with.

Option 1:

F5 for icon refresh. This option did not work for nemo-desktop because hidamari stayed on top but it might work for caja?
If it does: You could try to simulate F5 pressing in a script via Xdotool.

Option 2?

This should work in the terminal. If it creates more trouble than worth for you - it would be good if you told people that it doesn't work - One thing less to test to get to a real solution.

caja -q && nohup caja >/dev/null 2>&1

Basically bash for killing and restarting the application "caja". (and hoping it will lay over hidamari)

Did work for nemo-desktop - but was too inconsistent in long bash scripts therefore i ruled it out for my usecase (see 4th script lelelelkorgpt mentioned)

[lelelelkorgpt]

sorry guys but it still don't work

[Xethy]

I developed somewhat a brute force method with xdotool which i got to work for nemo.

What i found out - Hidamari can be minimized and maximized. Nemo-desktop can be minimized and maximized via Xdotool.
This command could also work for more than just mint - as it first minimizes all applications, Then maximizes Hidamari, then the rest. If caja is minimizable and maximizable. It might overlay Hidamari that way.

As you probably figured out yourself: Xdotool is a requirement.

# Minimize all windows
xdotool search --onlyvisible --class . windowminimize %@
# Maximize Hidamari
hidamari_id=$(xdotool search --name "Hidamari" &> /dev/null | head -1)
if [ -n "$hidamari_id" ]; then
    xdotool windowactivate --sync $hidamari_id windowraise windowmaximize> /dev/null
fi
# Maximize all other windows with delay handling
xdotool search --onlyvisible --class . | while read -r id; do
    if [ "$id" != "$hidamari_id" ]; then
        xdotool windowactivate --sync $id windowraise windowmaximize &> /dev/null &
    fi
done
wait

Downsides to this command - if you have a lot of applications minimized -> These will all be maximized at the end of your command + the command will try to maximized applications that cannot be maximized, so a few instances of it will run for some time. I handled that with & and wait, so that you don't have to wait for a lot of these in a row.

Also, the command has like all commands a certain failure rate, where it doesn't do what it is supposed to. Doesn't seem too high though on my side.

[lelelelkorgpt]

dont work :/