Answering my own post - in case this can help others. I found the problem. In Desktop Folder Settings, I un-checked Preview Thumbnails and everything is back to normal.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 18:33:12 +0300 Shlomo Solomon <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a few links to applications such as wireshark, krdc, Virtualbox > on my Kubuntu desktop. > > For some reason, today all of these links no longer have the correct > icon but "look like" text files. Strangely, in each icon I can see a > "preview" of some text. > > If I right-click > properties I see the correct icon. > > If I drag one of them to the panel, the icon appears correctly on the > panel. > > When I login, I can see the correct icons on the desktop for about one > second and then they all "magically" change to look like text file > icons again. > > Any idea what is causing this? > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Claws Mail 3.16.0 - Kubuntu 18.04 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
