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Where can I find out what the small icons next to folder icons mean?

Asked by treetop

I'm new to linux. I can't seem to find the place that explains the small icons which are placed next to the folder icons. I did find the emblems in the folder properties but that list doesn't represent all the icons which I can see, for example, in the root folder the vmlinuz icon has an arrow attached. Where can I find the explanation for what the arrow is supposed to represent? I looked through the documentation for 7.01 but I can't find an answer.

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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) said : 		#1

The arrow is just the icon for a link. Links are like shortcuts from windows.

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Best maruscia (maruscia) said : 		#2

The arrow attached to vmlinuz folder means that vmlinuz folder is just a link to /boot/vmlinuz-your-kernel-version.
The arrow represents either hard or symbolic links.
See manpage of "ln" command for more details on linking.

The icons that you can see under Properties>Emblems tab represent just some funny "graphic comments" that you can add to a specific, the only one which says something meaningful about that specific file permissions is the one with the cross which means "unreadable".

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treetop (treetop) said : 		#3

Thanks Mara,

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treetop (treetop) said : 		#4

And thanks to you too, Kemel. I was guessing that that's what it meant. You solved my question. Thanks again to you both.

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Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan) said : 		#5

:-)