Hovering/Pop-up Info Icons for Desktop

I'm talking about the big Windows 8 kind, like when one toggles Capslock, or Keyboard Language, or Insert. I've searched around but couldn't find anything, if someone is using something of the like I'd appreciate it if they pointed me in the right direction. Running OpenBox with tint2 atm pretty basic.

A wrapper script bound to those keys that triggers notify-send would be one way to accomplish it...
Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

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Custom icon for desktop shortcut

Hi All,
I have a link in the portal which when the end users click should create a desktop shortcut to the portal.
I used this to create the desktop shortcut
var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
var oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "
Portal.url");
oShellLink.TargetPath = "URL to the portal";
oShellLink.Save();
By default we get the IE icon for this shortcut. I want a custom icon to be associated with this shortcut.
I can use oShellLink.IconLocation but the icon needs to be in every users c:\windows folder.
Does somebody know how can I add this custom icon?
Many Thanks,
Akhilesh

Google for Favicon
"TonyEB" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> How do you incorporate an Icon in to your website so
that when someone
> puts a
> web short cut on their desktop it changes from the
default to your
> customized
> one. Where in DW CS3 do you put this file?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>

Icon for Desktop Shows Up as a Generic Icon in the Places Sidebar

Noticed yesterday that the icon for the Desktop showed up as a generic icon in the Places Sidebar. I have tried resetting the PRAM, repaired the Hard Disk and Permissions using the Disk Utility and deleted the com.apple.desktop.plist pref in my user library. I also checked my Admin account I use for troubleshooting and the desktop icon was fine in that account. Not sure what else to do. Not a big deal but just wanted to make sure that it is not a sign of bigger things to come. Maybe the MBP knows I'm thinking of trading it in for a new model, LOL.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Tom

Wow. That's stunning. I don't really know why it works, but it does. Apparently when you paste something on top of the icon in the sidebar, and remove it, it refreshes itself and somehow remembers the original icon?
I deleted something and had several blank white icons in the sidebar, so I removed them and restored by pulling them back on from my home folder. Everything worked except the Desktop. First it was the blank white icon. Then I pulled it from my home folder and it was a plain blue icon with the generic page symbol, such as a standard Documents folder icon. Then I fiddled with it and pulled it over again and it changed to the generic blue desktop icon you see in the home folder. Last I tried your step of just pasting the generic desktop icon over it and undo-ing that paste, and viola!
Many thanks for sharing. I could have forced myself to live with the generic, but it wouldn't have been the same, and not truly satisfactory, as it wasn't back the way I started. Insert applause.
pete

Want an iTunes icon for desktop

I want an iTunes icon for the desktop; but when I look in the iTunes folder under Start Menu/All Programs/iTunes, all that has in there is iTunes.exe. When I double click on it, it tries to install.
Where can I get (or how do I make) a shortcut for desktop?

=bg= wrote:
when I right click, 'create shortcut' is not shown.
Is that the iTunes icon in your Start menu, that you're clicking on rather than your iTunes.exe, bg?
In Computer, open Local disk C:\ or whichever drive you have your program files installed on.
If you have a 32-bit Vista, open the "Program files" folder.
If you have a 64-bit Vista, open the "Program files (x86)" folder.
Open the "iTunes" folder.
Right-click on the iTunes.exe file and select "Create Shortcut".
(If you have "Hide extensions for known file types" engaged in your View options, and you can't see the .exe extension, be sure click on the iTunes file in the "iTunes" folder that has the iTunes icon. (The other one is your iTunes.dll, not your iTunes.exe.)

I no longer have the info icon for a manual sync.

I'm trying to do a manual sync with an iMac which I've done many times before and the "info" icon is missing from the list of syncable features. What am I missing?

Well, yes my questions were answered but of course I came to realization that Apple in their hearts-of-hearts needs to herd everyone to iClod. (Tonque in cheek). Sad. or as SJ would say, it's a total POS.....

Pop up info window for links

Hello all it's the rookie again.... I have a lot of "image"
links on my page. it is an online portfolio so all my links are
thumbnails and I would love if when a visitor moused over a link it
would then triger a little pop up info that gives a quick one
sentence description of what that link is about. ANY HELP WILL BE
MUCH APPRECIATED.

Or this -
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"josie1one" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> If the alt attribute and title isn't enough then you
probably want
> "tooltips" - see this:
>
>
http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm
>
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> Jo
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> "Quesstt" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Hello all it's the rookie again.... I have a lot of
"image" links on my
>> page.
>> it is an online portfolio so all my links are
thumbnails and I would love
>> if
>> when a visitor moused over a link it would then
triger a little pop up
>> info
>> that gives a quick one sentence description of what
that link is about.
>> ANY
>> HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED.
>>
>
>

Icon for Desktop App

I have created a link to an app on my desktop. Its icon is the general image. Get info of the link has the correct icon. Why doesn't the same icon show on the desktop link?

You're brilliant! It worked! It worked! Just like that!
Thank you SO much!

Icon for Desktop ShortCut

Hi,
How do you incorporate an Icon in to your website so that
when someone puts a web short cut on their desktop it changes from
the default to your customized one. Where in DW CS3 do you put this
file?
Thanks
Tony

Google for Favicon
"TonyEB" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fb57gl$ea4$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> How do you incorporate an Icon in to your website so
that when someone
> puts a
> web short cut on their desktop it changes from the
default to your
> customized
> one. Where in DW CS3 do you put this file?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>

How to get search sites icons for desktop

Can't get sites icons, always get firefox's icons

If you drag a link or favicon on the left end of the location bar onto the desktop to create an internet shortcut then that shortcut gets the icon of the default browser.
If you want a different icon (favicon) then you have to assign that icon yourself to the desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties).
You can usually get the favicon if you append "favicon.ico" to the main domain of a website (e.g. http://www.mozilla.com/favicon.ico ) to display the favicon in a tab and save that image to a folder or see if you can find it in "Tools > Page Info > Media".

How do I change the desktop Icon for an external hard drive? I have gone to "Get Info" and tried dragging and dropping several formats of pictures and the icon changes to the generic image of that file type.

how can I change the desktop icon for an external hard drive. Using LaCies and Dimple hard drives.

One of the things I've found with OS X (at least with Snow Leopard, which is my first excursion into OS X), is that all too often the thumbnail displayed on a file, whether a file created or one downloaded, is a false thumbnail. That is, when you do a Get Info on the file the icon in the upper left is the generic icon for that file type, rather than the thumbnail displayed in Finder. Makes it a bit difficult to copy.
Apparently Finder uses Preview in the background to generate the displayed thumbnail without actually creating one.
What I've resorted to doing, particularly with graphic images, is to process them with GraphicConverter - I have its prefs set to automatially add thumbnails and previews. With an individual file this means opening it in GC and doing a Save As. However, a much easier and faster way is when there are two or more such files; I put them in a common folder and drop the folder onto GC. GC then opens them in a catalog view, in the process adding real thumbnails and previews to each automatically. Doesn't take long to do several hundred files that way.

Custom icon for Boot Camp partition on Snow Leopard desktop?

I have a Boot Camp partition (NTFS) with Windows XP. In Snow Leopard, the partition shows on the desktop with a generic hard drive icon. I'd like to change this to a custom icon, but when trying to paste over the generic icon in the Get Info window, Edit->Paste is grayed out.
In Leopard, it was possible to have a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition by formatting a thumb drive as FAT32, pasting the custom icon onto it in the Get Info window, booting into Windows XP, and copying two invisible icon files from the thumb drive to the NTFS drive. This would display the custom icon for the Boot Camp partition icon on the Leopard desktop. This doesn't work in Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to use a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition on the Snow Leopard desktop?

I don't see this option in Properties for the Boot Camp volume. In any case, I believe the custom icon is set correctly for the C: drive in Windows. I followed he procedure in the second paragraph of my initial post, which I learned from a post over a year ago. I copied the two hidden files .VolumeIcons.icns and ._ File _ to the C: drive. When I boot into Leopard, the correct custom icon for the Boot Camp partition appears on the Leopard desktop. But when I boot into Snow Leopard, only a generic hard drive icon appears on the desktop for that partition.

"Enter the Yahoo! password for [my yahoo email address]" keeps popping up on my Mac desktop

A pop-up window "Enter the Yahoo! password for [my yahoo email address]" keeps popping up on my Mac desktop (Leopard OS) every few hours. This has happened for the past year and only happens on my MacPro desktop, never on other laptops/computer. Does anyone have solution please ?

Ok !! I think I finally found the trouble of this !! I went crazy that every 5 seconds I had to fill in my password for my yahoo account om Apple Mail. My computer is in another language so I'll try to translate as good as possible the buttons and so ..
So these are the steps required:
You need to give computer access to the password of Yahoo.com. How to do so ?
You go to the application "Key Chain" that is included in your MacBook Pro.
Then you go to the first tab that should say something with "Login/Session" and you should see all your saved passwords.
Scroll down to the saved password of "Yahoo: your-username @ ...
Click on it, you should see a window opening
Go to the tab "Access Control"
Then click on "Allow all applications to connect .. ", NOT the option "Ask every time for allowance" or you can also just add the program "MAIL" with the "+" icon !!
There you go, now you should not have to worry again !!!!!!
Hope it helps people !!!

Missing desktop icon for Seagate 500GB FW external drive

I have recently lost my desktop icon for my Seagate 500GB FW external drive.... it there!!!! System profiler sees it, so does Disk Utilities and even my back up program will still back up to it. However no desktop icon to access it...What did I do or did not do HELP!!!
iMAC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1G RAM

Did you ever figure this one out?
I have seen two external Seagate drives (FW, 500GB) stop mounting after about one use on a mac. Neither of them would show up under windows XP or 2000 afterwards.
I reformatted one, and am wondering if I'll need to do the same thing to the other.
Thanks for any info!
Dual 2.5 GHz G5, 1 GB SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

How do I create a desktop Icon for Adobe create pdf?

How do I create a desktop icon for Adobe create pdf?

Hi, ken.
You can access ExportPDF from your computer more quickly in three ways:
You can download and install the CreatePDF Desktop Application. More info is here. With this application, you can drag PDF files onto a desktop icon and have those converted to Office files. (If you subscribe to the CreatePDF service, this application will also allow you to create PDF files.)
You can download and install the newest Adobe Reader and access the service using Reader's Tools Pane on right. Then, any time you have PDF open in Reader, you can (with a couple of clicks) convert that PDF to an Office file.
You can drag the webpage icon from your browser to your desktop. This will create a shortcut to the ExportPDF website on your desktop. Here are some instructions for doing that using Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Let us know if you have additional questions or issues.
Dave

Desktop drag and drop icon for my "other" computer

i really need an icon for my MacBookPro desktop to reside on my Mac Pro desktop (and vice versa) so that I can just drag and drop copy (or move) data from one volume to another. sort of like what I have with my dropbox icon in the sense that I can just keep this on my desktop and in the View Pane of Finder and drag and drop items or open the volume etc.
is this possible and i am just not getting it to work because i don't have things set to mount automatically or is there a restriction that does not allow this that I don't understand?
i am on snow leopard and the connection is via wi, but I could plug in via ethernet when i know i will need to do this sort of moving of data a lot.
thanks for clearing any of this up for me.
- jon

if as3, create a sprite or movieclip and use:
image1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,downF);
image1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,upF);
function downF(e:MouseEvent):void{
Sprite(e.currentTarget).startDrag();
function upF(e:MouseEvent):void{
Sprite(e.currentTarget).stopDrag();

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