I can't change icons in pcmanfm

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-04 23:09:33

hi

I can't change icons in pcmanfm. I have downloaded 3 sets of icons, the 1st set I have been using for 8 months, but fancied a change so downloaded another 2 sets!

I am running arch / fluxbox.

I extracted the icon tars to the /home/danny/.fluxbox/icons folder, and have the following in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0

# gtk-icon-theme-name="hydroxygen"
gtk-icon-theme-name="buuf1.03"
# gtk-icon-theme-name="Mashup"

the idea is to change between the 3 fairly easily. Unfortunately, no change occurs when I change which line is commented, and then restart all instances of pcmanfm!

any ideas what im doing wrong??

thanks

bender02 · 2008-11-04 23:38:58

Hmmm... why should gtk look for icon themes inside ~/.fluxbox? Shouldn't they by somewhere like ~/.icons? Have you tried changing the icon theme to the desired one using some graphical tool, like lxappearance?

Hrod beraht · 2008-11-04 23:45:11

I was thinking along the same lines as Bender. Isn't the default location for gtk icons /usr/share/icons? Try specifying the entire path if you don't have your icons there.

Bob

ghostHack · 2008-11-04 23:49:30

locally downloaded icon themes need to go in ~/.icons

creslin · 2008-11-04 23:57:21

This should also work if you want to use non-standard locations. By the way I'm not sure about this, but I don't think you'll see the changes immediately just by changing the comments and closing pcman.

#include "/home/danny/.fluxbox/icons/hydroxygen/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
include "/home/danny/.fluxbox/icons/buuf1.03/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
#include "/home/danny/.fluxbox/icons/Mashup/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

ninjaprawn · 2008-11-05 07:52:06

thanks for that.

I will try putting the icons in /usr/share/icons & ~/.icons

that sounds about right though. Thanks

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I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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