Change icons per connection in client?

[bundito]

Hi !M

I use my Mac to connect to a couple different Linux systems. It’d be a nice bit of personalization if I could use a custom icon for each machine. I know they’re just PNG files (I peeked inside the Mac app bundle). Any chance?

[Tor]

Hi. Your proposal would be technically easy to implement, but those icons are very important to identify each item, so for consistency reasons it would not be a good idea to allow to customize them. Furthermore that list will be soon expanded to include more items, so it’ll be even more important to keep it easy and clear! 🙂

[Britgirl]

By the way, since they’re only PNG files you can replace them 🙂

[bundito]

They’re only PNG files, but I can’t assign icon A to machine A and icon B to machine B. Sometimes I dream up solutions to problems that don’t even exist. It’s a bad habit. I’ll try to stop. Thanks for the replies and keep up the good work. !M is a great product.

[Tor]

Your dream may come true actually! 🙂 It’s pretty annoying that you can’t change those icons, so we are elaborating a solution that will allow to change the connection icon, and we’re studying how to reflect the change also in the file managers of operating systems supported by NoMachine (this is a quite complex topic, as you can imagine).

[bundito]

For anyone else who wants to customize things a little, here’s what I did. I made aliases to the connection “documents” for my two different Linux machines. I changed the alias icons using the technique described here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25383?locale=en_US

Now I have two nice icons in my Mac dock, one with the Gnome icon and another with the KDE icon. Clicking either one launches NoMachine and starts the connection.

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