how to change drives and ramdisk icon?

[beltrixx]

Hi,

I know this must be a newbie question, but I do need help because I've tried all known (to me) methods to change my drive and ram icons and I don't know how to do it.

I don't like the appearance of the "glowicons" so I've tried to replace them with newicons versions, whose appearance I like most.

If I use the CopyNewIcon prog directly over the icons on the workbench screen I get no result (icons don't change): My drive and ram disk icons are the default icons that come with OS 3.9.

I've only succeded in changing the "def_drawer" icon by the one in Newicons package, copying it to prefs/env-archive/sys and overwriting the "glowicon" version, but still don't know how to change drives icons and ram disk icons and get rid of the nasty glowicon appearance.

The curious thing is that If I use Scalos instead of Workbench, I get the appearance I want so there must be  something in OS 3.9 that updates automatically icon appearance to show "glowicons" instead of "newicons". How can I bypass this??

Thanks in advance,

Manel.

[beltrixx]

I still haven't tried the ramdisk icon method, and as for the drives icons I can tell you that it worked on OS 3.1 but doesn't work on OS 3.9.

Thanks anyway for your answer!

Regards,

Manel.

[beltrixx]

Yes, the icon information method works. If open "icon information" from "icon" menu and drag a new icon over the icon that is displayed (on the left) side of icon information window, icon is changed.

However I can't change the ramdisk icon. It seems impossible.

I've tried to copy another icon to envarc:sys/ but when I try to rename it as "def_ram" the system does not allow me to change the icon name. I've also tried to edit sys:s/startup-sequence and add a line like :

copy sys:c/ramdisk_icon.info to ram:disk.info

But still the ramdisk icon is not changed. How can I fix this??

Regards,

Manel (beltrixx).

[beltrixx]

I've recovered the ramdisk icon from the OS 3.9 CD.

This icon is a special one, you are not able to view it from within workbench when you open the envarc:sys/ drawer !!!

I'll try to find a replacement icon on Aminet.

Thanks anyway.