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How to resize/hide arrows on the Desktop icons?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2009 / 3 Years ago, tue, september 7, 2021, 5:46:01

I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04LTS. So far, everything is running well except my desktop icons sometimes exhibit a massive arrow (this is the case of the *.desktop files:

Is there a way to resize and or hide these arrows? I did not see any possibility in gnome-tweaks.
To make it clear: in the above icons, Corbeille (created by the system) is what I would like to see. Veramtex and Pycharm both are .desktop files with the corresponding icons. Only there appears a large arrow on both. Could I get rid of those?
Here is the content of Pycharm.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Terminal=true

Name=Pycharm

Icon=/..../pycharm-community-2020.2/bin/pycharm.png

Exec=/..../pycharm-community-2020.2/bin/pycharm.sh

Name[fr_BE]=Pycharm

And this is icon pycharm.png (without the arrow)

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answered 3 Years ago entmpy · Accepted Answer

While the referenced post by Ali I. Demirel suggests removing/renaming icons or creating .desktop files. I expect them to work.

Here is an alternative option, resizing the icons or make them fully transparent (extreme ratio 1%/10000%~5%/2000%).
```
sudo apt install imagemagick-6.q16

sudo find /usr/share/icons/Yaru/ -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png" 

-exec cp -v {} {}.bak ; 

-exec convert {} -resize 50% 

-background transparent -gravity SouthEast -extent 200% {} ;
```
1. sudo:/usr/share/icons/Yaru/ is a system directory
2. find ... -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png": Search for icons
3. find ... -exec cp {} {}.bak ;: Make a backup copy
4. find ... -exec convert {} -resize 50% -background transparent -gravity SouthEast -extent 200% {} ;
  
  Resize it down to 50% (half), Set default background color, Set default position, Extant image back to original size which is 200% (double).
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To restore them back to original:

sudo find /usr/share/icons/Yaru/ -name "emblem-symbolic-link.png.bak" -exec sh -c 'cp -v {} $(dirname {})/$(basename -s.bak {})' ;

## worst case, reinstall icons

sudo apt --reinstall install yaru-theme-icon

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Results for 50%/200% ratio in below screenshot: