Martin,

> Or read thje manual and/or manpages for the desktop manager you're using.

[quote=me]
Yep, lets just try to dig thru all of it in search for something I do not
even know what its called. :-(
[/quote]

> I use XFCE and its solution is to right click somewhere on the
> desktop, select 'Create Launcher'.

I'm not looking to change a single files icon (I could have created a
.desktop file for that.  Yup, found that too.)

> Try using a web search

Take a "wild guess" to what I've been dong before, and after having posted
my question.  And how many results-and-tries-thereof have already failed.
Including trying to use  an .svg "icon" , placed in several "does it need to
go /there/ ?" folders, and ultimatily figuring out that an .svg "icon" does
not work.  That alone took me a couple of hours. :-(

> Providing somewhat more information will get you better help.

Thats like a mechanic (you) asking a mere car driver (me) to tell him whats
wrong with the engine. :-(

I thought I made clear I have /no/ idea what I should be looking for.  And
that also means I have no idea what kind of information is important - which
means I depended on you guys to tell me what you need.

But by  a "lucky guess" of rightclicking the bar at the top of the screen
and seeing an "about" entry showed me that I'm using LXPanel 0.10.0


If you have a simpler/more straight-forward method than to create an .xml
file in /usr/share/mime/packages folder which specifies the mimetype, the
files comment as wel as its icon (no path, no extension) and afterwards
running "sudo update-mime-database $PWD" in the parent directory than I
would still like to know.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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