{"id":529,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=529"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"change-the-deskbar-logo-or-trash-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Change the Deskbar logo or Trash icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: This trick works with the Trash too, and presumably any system icon &#8212; to change your Trash icon, open the Tracker in QuickRes and drag icons from other FileTypes panels into the QuickRes icon editor.]<br \/>\nBeOS R5 comes with a programmer&#8217;s resource editing tool called &#8222;QuickRes&#8220; (<code>\/boot\/develop\/tools\/experimental\/QuickRes<\/code>). After experimenting with it a bit, I noticed that opening certain system files revealed many familiar icons.<br \/>\nIn order to change the BeOS logo on the Deskbar&#8230; <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make a backup copy of your original DeskBar! (<code>\/boot\/beos\/system\/Deskbar<\/code>).\n<li>Right click on <code>\/boot\/beos\/system\/Deskbar<\/code> and choose &#8222;Open With&#8230;&#8220; | QuickRes.\n<li>Scroll down to the familiar BeOS icon in the list view and click on it. Below the list view, there should appear an Icon Editor quite similar to &#8222;Icon-O-Matic.&#8220; <\/ol>\n<p>With a little work, you&#8217;ll be able to make a custom icon to show all your friends!<br \/>\n<center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/562.custom.deskbar.gif\" width=242 height=170 alt=\"562.custom.deskbar\"> <\/center><br \/>\nGo ahead and poke around in the QuickRes editor to see what else you can hack on, but be careful &#8212; the Deskbar is important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: This trick works with the Trash too, and presumably any system icon &#8212; to change your Trash icon, open the Tracker in QuickRes and drag icons from other FileTypes panels into the QuickRes icon editor.] BeOS R5 comes with a programmer&#8217;s resource editing tool called &#8222;QuickRes&#8220; (\/boot\/develop\/tools\/experimental\/QuickRes). After experimenting with it a bit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}