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avasam

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[SOLVED] Tray icon problem in xfce and gnome with any icon theme

On the GNOME and xfce4 desktops tray icon's do not show applications status correctly. for example when obs-studio Records the desktop or is in pause mode No symbols are displayed on the obs tray icon.
When i use linux default icons theme like : Adwaita or Breeze everything is fine BUT i wanna install another popular icon themes like arc , papirus , paper and ...
I traied many ways but This problem seems to be related to icon themes or DE !
I tested on Gnome 41 and xfce4.
Can I use special theme only for tray that are separate from the theme icons of the entire system ? for example papirus for all desktop icons and Adwaita for only tray icons ???

Last edited by avasam (2022-07-25 08:07:06)

avasam

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Re: [SOLVED] Tray icon problem in xfce and gnome with any icon theme

i fixed this problem with these steps :
1 - find icons theme pack from ~/.icons or /usr/share/icons
2 - use filemanager like nautilus to search
3 - search obs and find all icons releated obs-studio (it can be another application icon)
4 - Delete the found icons

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Re: [SOLVED] Tray icon problem in xfce and gnome with any icon theme

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).