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#1 2013-10-26 04:21:50

ilike
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Xfce: Set Applikation icon for taskbar and task switcher

Hi Community,
I'm facing a Problem with icons in xfce: some applications don't seem to have the correct ones in the task switcher (alt+tab) and the task bar. A default icon is shown instead. This happens for example with gedit and urxvt.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/DsgNBRi.png


I use whisker menu as startmenu/appstarter and the icons are correct there. (They are also correct in Dockbarx)
How can I set icons for the taskbar/-switcher? Do I need icons with specific sizes in /usr/share/icons?

Thanks in advance!




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Last edited by ilike (2013-10-26 11:23:47)

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#2 2013-10-26 08:27:24

ConnorBehan
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Re: Xfce: Set Applikation icon for taskbar and task switcher

It sounds like you're not the only one having this problem with gedit. Unfortunately I still think the answer is that the taskbar icon needs to be hard coded.


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#3 2013-10-26 11:22:18

ilike
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Registered: 2011-09-01
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Re: Xfce: Set Applikation icon for taskbar and task switcher

Yeah, the problem seems to be quite common.
Similar Topics:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=14909
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=167517
http://askubuntu.com/questions/292700/s … task-icons
http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=6432.0

Nethertheless, no solution suggested on these sites worked for me. ;(

I also reinstalled gedit (sudo pacman -Rns gedit && sudo pacman -S gedit) which didn't work and I created a new user account (and changed the themes) to preclude that something is wrong with the settings in my home directory. It's funny that xfce4-terminal displays the icon correctly in the taskbar/-switcher because it uses the same "Icon=utilities-terminal" setting  as urxvt in its .desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

Edit: After reading this post I installed rxvt-unicode-patched (aur) instead of rxvt-unicode from community. The urxvt icon can be set now in the .Xdefaults-File:

URxvt*iconFile: /usr/share/icons/Moka/256x256/apps/utilities-terminal.png

The Icon-Setting in /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop seems to be applied only for the startmenu.

Last edited by ilike (2013-10-26 14:40:03)

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