icons on desktop with annoying arrow, (usually html)

[Condobloke]

...And you wish to get rid of the arrow......

This definitely applies to Linux Mint Cinnamon, 22.

Whether it applies to other DE's or other distros, I have zero idea. Try it and see.

Your link looks like this:....you wish it to be 'arrowless"

right click on icon which has arrow......select properties....clicked on the old icon with arrow.........then clicked on browse.....randomly chose something from the list presented there ....and then continued to click on open.......highlighted the resulting icon to select it.... Done

.......then click on browse....

.randomly chose something from the list presented there ...I clicked on Mint-L-Orange.....

..... then continue to click on Open....(the second page has icon sizes....you select whatever you like there....I used 48).....

The next page you can click something there and see what the result is.....I left at whatever was on top and the result was .....(after highlighting the resulting icon to select it)

i went through the process again and selected 48X48...but on the page before that I selected High Contrast.....then emblems...then emblem system.png....

And ended up with

There are a million and one choices.....if you don't like what you end up with ??....try again, //.....and again

I chose randomly and ended up with....

and

......this one choosing GoogleDot-Black

Have fun....and be rid of the dreaded Arrow.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Condobloke :-

You DO know that the "arrow" merely indicates the icon/launcher is just a 'link', don't you Brian?

I don't know how Mint - or indeed most 'mainstream' distros/DEs - handle this. I do know that if we try the same thing in Puppy, you can change the icon for whatever you like, and the arrow still persists.....because the 'link' indicator (the little 'arrow' itself) is provided by a separate 'overlay', which always shows for a link of any kind, regardless of icon selected.

Looks like in your case, the 'arrow' is in fact part of the icon itself. Fair enough!


Mike.

 

[Condobloke]

You DO know that the "arrow" merely indicates the icon/launcher is just a 'link', don't you Brian?

Yes, I do know that. The link was initially made by following @wizardfromoz's instructions, here

I usually make a shortcut by right clicking on the desktop and inserting the browser name and url and in recent memory that has always worked without drama
But....not now. LM22 has a few little dramas going on, under the hood. That is one of them. Those shortcuts would randomly throw a "authentication required,,, keyring didn't get unlocked etc error ....which was not the end of the world by any means...it was just ticking me off.

I searched and searched and the solutions around the 'net were fairly iffy at best....complex, some of them....they didn't fill me with confidence in any way shape or form.
I had the urge to set the whole thing to rest...it had already consumed more time than the damn things were worth

So, a bit of a think....and a fiddle around and it occurred to me to that using the material that shows in mint for the many and various themes would not be subject to the same 'rules' as other icons etc....and so it proved to be.

All good....the miniscule 'worry' that the 'arrow' was causing is no more.