How to assign special folder icons in XFCE

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I inadvertently deleted my Pictures folder on my linux box running XFCE / Thunar and, after restoring from the trash bin, the folder icon is plain with no camera on it.

How do I get the folder icon back?

In folder properties I just find how to add emblems to the bottom left corner of the icon but it's not the same thing.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Best Answer

Make sure $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs contains the line:

XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"

Then restart Thunar.

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1- Open the terminal and execute sudo vi .gtkrc-2.0. (You can choose your own text editor.

2- Press a and go to the end of the file.

3- Copy and paste the following style script

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170

base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc"
base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc"
base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc"

fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

4- Press Esc and then :wq to save the file.

Source

P.S.: If you copied the style from the website it won't work. It appears that the double quotation mark is not THE quotation mark so I changed them all and posted it here.

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