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maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 255

xfce4 missing icons for menu items

My xfce4 seems to have blank icons for some of the menu items and I can't figure out why. I installed the entire xfce4 and xfce4-goodies groups.

alroar

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Registered: 2012-10-15

Posts: 27

Re: xfce4 missing icons for menu items

That rather depends on the icon-theme you are using. Which one are you using ATM, have you tried another one?

One helpfull programm for that is the xfce-theme-manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-theme-manager/)

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 1,591

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Re: xfce4 missing icons for menu items

maggie: are you talking about icons in the Applications menu applet? If yes, are the icons missing for applications which do not provide icons¹? If yes, then you have the answer: there is no icon displayed because there is no icon to display for the entry.

AFAIR, the pre-4.12 Applications menu applet displayed some ugly stock icon as a placeholder, but it seems that this behaviour is no longer present in the latest release. If you truly want icons for the entries, you may set them by editing corresponding .desktop entries. The best way is placing your overrides in ~/.local/share/applications as this will not pollute pacman-managed /usr/share/applications directory.
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¹ See the corresponding .desktop entry in /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications

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