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[Ivanm]

I dropped the new usericons in every opencpn file that i can find in linux but still not working, any info on where to put these files and where to find the i cv ons that come with opencpn as i want to delete ds ome of those that i dont use

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[cagney]

Originally Posted by Ivanm

I made a file in home/$USER/.opencpn/UserIcons for Linux as in the manual but cant see the png files in opencpn to change the icon for marks maybe i did something wrong, in windows there is no problem. It is the same place that holds the conf file and navobj files

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Just restart and try again. I just tested and it works as advertised....

Thomas

[Ivanm]

I did that but doesn't show
Any idea where to find the original icons that come installed with O

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[cagney]

Originally Posted by Ivanm

I did that but doesn't show
Any idea where to find the original icons that come installed with O

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Ivan

The original Icons are in /usr/share/opencpn/uidata/toolicons_traditional.png.
They are, as you can see, in a different format. By far the easiest way to get different icons to display, is to use what you have already tried. You just have to crack what's wrong. Perhaps you can show us the output of this command

$ls -l /home/$USER/.opencpn/UserIcons

Thomas

[Ivanm]

Show directory doesn't

Let me just get this right, I go to home, then open . Opencpn and create a folder named Usericons with my png files here

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[cagney]

Originally Posted by Ivanm

Show directory doesn't

Let me just get this right, I go to home, then open . Opencpn and create a folder named Usericons with my png files here

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Not quite...
In /home/ivan/.opencpn you create a directory called "UserIcons", and nothing else, the case of the letters matters in Linux.

Thomas

[Ivanm]

Easy as that UserIcons wasn't with an uppercase letter

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[Ivanm]

Is there a way to change a group of icons for waypoints at once?

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[Ivanm]

I managed to change waypoint icons with notepad, easily.




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[Ivanm]

Is there a way to import layers of waypoints to show after a restart of Opencpn without importing the waypoints as waypoints but to keep it as a layer

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[nohal]

Ivan...
Yes, just save them into the Layers subdfolder in your data folder (same process as you use with the icons) as described in Layers | Official OpenCPN Homepage

Pavel

[Ivanm]

Thanks

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[Ivanm]

Just one thing that I pic up is that when I want to drop a mark with Ctl+O or Ctl+M, I forst have to click somewhere on the screen with the mouse otherwise the mark doesn't get dropped.

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[bcn]

So you say the focus is not there at the beginning.

When? How is exactly the workflow - and your OS ( Win or Linux)?

From some steps before: Did you succeed to import the OLEX waypoints? If yes, can you describe the How-to for people that might be interested?

Happy you are making progress!

Hubert

[Ivanm]

I use Linux, yes if I use Ctl + O the mark doesn't appear on the screen, before I click on screen to center the screen, I went to the Route manager to see if the mark are there but also not, I work around this problem just make sure to remember to click and then drop mark with Ctl +O

No, still strugling with the Olex marks, emails sent to Gpsu see if they can help me

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