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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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

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bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 241

Re: I can't change icons in pcmanfm

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"

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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: I can't change icons in pcmanfm

thanks for that.

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

that sounds about right though. Thanks

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2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound