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Mr. Swillis

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 54

Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Hello,

I have been able to change the main menu icon in Gnome in several other distributions running gnome 2.22 (Fedora, Debian, etc) and had no issues. The method I have always used is copy the custom icon to /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png. I have not been successful with this in Arch. I also tried copying to the 22x22 directory and also using the GConf method (apps > panels > objects > Use_Custom_Icon...). No luck so far. I'm totally up to date with all my stuff (gnome 2.22.2), so if anyone knows a good method, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Swill

Last edited by Mr. Swillis (2008-07-02 22:58:31)

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biloky

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 60

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Hi,

Your theme's icon cache might needs updating. Try the following command:

#  gtk-update-icon-cache <path to your icon theme>

Lord_Bad

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Registered: 2005-04-17

Posts: 54

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

I cannot change the icon either. I followed the instructions in the wiki, but nothing happened. I very much doubt that setting a custom icon in gconf is somewhat related to gtk's icon cache.

biloky

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 60

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Here's how I did it...

Assuming you're using Gnome's default icon theme:
1. Replace /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png with your icon of choice.
2. If the theme's icon cache was previously generated (/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache), you can either re-generate it using the following command
     # gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome
or you can just delete it (the cache is supposed to speed up GTK apps' access to the icons).
3. Restart X or # killall gnome-panel to see the change.

twarkie

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 24

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Here's how I did it...

Assuming you're using Gnome's default icon theme:
1. Replace /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png with your icon of choice.
2. If the theme's icon cache was previously generated (/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache), you can either re-generate it using the following command
     # gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome
or you can just delete it (the cache is supposed to speed up GTK apps' access to the icons).
3. Restart X or # killall gnome-panel to see the change.

That's what I had to do too, but it feels like the wrong way. It should be possible to change it through the configuration editor. A bug perhaps?

Edit: Replacing the icon file was not possible with the default icon theme. However, it works on other themes.

Last edited by twarkie (2008-06-28 17:58:44)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

@biloky:

Thank you!  That foot has been bothering me for a long time.  I understand the deep meaning behind the symbol, but I think it's ugly and I wanted to get rid of it.

Mr. Swillis

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 54

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Awesome, the "gtk-update-icon-cache" did the trick. Thanks for the replies!

Swill

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iDope

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Registered: 2009-11-26

Posts: 3

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

I have tried all of the above but the damn foot is still there.. I've not just done it for the 24x24 folder in the gnome icons directory. I've replaced every single start-here.png with the arch logo png of the appropriate size.. restarted X. killed gnome-panel. Everything... And I am starting to HATE that icon. its black and it looks even more hideous on my dark theme.

fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 228

Re: Change Gnome Menu Icon [SOLVED]

Check out http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86155 for an easy way to change it to the Arch logo.

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