How to get Firefox to use the icons defined by the Openbox GTK Theme?

soupcan · 2008-12-30 04:31:00

I ran

sudo pacman -R gnome

which gave me a list of almost all of the gnome packages on my system, which I removed. Then after opening Firefox, I realized that the icons were gone. If I click on Bookmarks, none of the favicons are there; if I click on File, there is no picture next to "New Tab". I've tried both reinstalling Firefox and all of the Gnome packages I removed, but the icons have not returned. Is there a way to get them to show up again?
EDIT: Favicons also don't show up in the bookmarks toolbar.

Last edited by soupcan (2008-12-30 15:07:36)

soupcan · 2008-12-30 14:50:31

I've just figured out how to get the icons back. I need to run gnome-appearance-properties, or something else that starts Gnome. I think that Firefox is currently set up to get its appearance from my former Gnome settings. Can I make it take its settings from openbox?

Hrod beraht · 2008-12-30 15:22:11

Check out the GTK Icons section of the Openbox wiki page.

Bob

soupcan · 2008-12-30 16:11:28

Hrod beraht wrote:

Check out the GTK Icons section of the Openbox wiki page.
Bob

I did that, but it didn't work. I think Firefox is still looking for something set in Gnome.

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Nezmer · 2008-12-30 16:31:28

Did you try lxappearance ?

soupcan · 2008-12-30 16:38:03

Nezmer wrote:

Did you try lxappearance ?

Yes, I have all of my appearance settings in lxappearance and obconf.

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soupcan · 2008-12-31 04:12:12

I'm going to bump this because I have some pertinent information: the icons are only present when gnome-settings-daemon is running. I don't want to have Gnome related stuff running anymore, as I've completely fallen in love with Openbox.

Hrod beraht · 2008-12-31 17:58:03

soupcan wrote:

Hrod beraht wrote:
Check out the GTK Icons section of the Openbox wiki page.
Bob
I did that, but it didn't work. I think Firefox is still looking for something set in Gnome.

Interesting. In my Openbox setup the icons are defined only in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. As shown below. (Note: I don't use any program that would overwrite the .gtkrc-2.0 file, which is why I don't bother using ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine)

~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-theme-name="Industrial"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Tango"
gtk-font-name="Sans 10"
gtk-toolbar-style=2

soupcan wrote:

...the icons are only present when gnome-settings-daemon is running.

Then I'd say just get rid of it. It's not needed to run Openbox.

soupcan wrote:

I've completely fallen in love with Openbox.

Me too.
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Since he said that, I'm sure he was an Openbox user too

Bob

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-09 01:24:01

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I like that one, never heard it before.

(ya, I know, off-topic)

Thanks for the tip on Openbox configuring. I just finished reinstalling Arch, and opted to use Openbox. I wanted something I could tweak a little more than Gnome. (besides, I like tint2 in all of the monthly screenshots.)

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-15 17:53:28

After re-reading the thread...

You may want to make a second user (make sure the ~/.xinitrc is using openbox-session) and just import your bookmarks in FF3, reset all of the appearance stuff, which is fairly easy in OpenBox, (especially vrs. Gnome) and you're FF3 should no longer be set up against anything in gnome. then you can delete the old user and focus on remembering to type the new user name when you login. (or what ever)

It took me about 10 mins, give or take a few, to get openbox reconfigured from scratch with my old settings. (had to reformat, made a grievious mistake with the partition table that wasn't fixable.) If you get everything arranged before hand, it could probibly be even quicker.

I hope that helps a little.

soupcan · 2009-01-16 02:54:26

LeoSolaris wrote:

After re-reading the thread...
You may want to make a second user (make sure the ~/.xinitrc is using openbox-session) and just import your bookmarks in FF3, reset all of the appearance stuff, which is fairly easy in OpenBox, (especially vrs. Gnome) and you're FF3 should no longer be set up against anything in gnome. then you can delete the old user and focus on remembering to type the new user name when you login. (or what ever)
It took me about 10 mins, give or take a few, to get openbox reconfigured from scratch with my old settings. (had to reformat, made a grievious mistake with the partition table that wasn't fixable.) If you get everything arranged before hand, it could probibly be even quicker.
I hope that helps a little.

I reinstalled a few days after that, with a straight Openbox install. Same thing. As far as I can tell, the problem is something to do with my GTK theme, as the icons are there when I use the openbox-themes package. I assume that something is set up incorrectly somewhere, but I can't figure it out. I know next to nothing about GTK theme configs.

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-25 01:39:29

Which firefox are you using? I am using the branded one from the AUR.

You may try installing the theme with lxappearance, and seeing if that works. (I have had a lot of luck with lxappearance for GtK2 themes and icons. Just be aware that it puts the themes and icons in /home/user/.icons)

Not all icon sets have buttons for firefox. I use Black-White 2 Style from Gnome-look.org, so I know it has buttons for firefox. Try it to see if it works.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=72619

Icon sets are separate from themes, and openbox has it's own themes for the borders, while using GtK2 for most of the buttons, scroll bars, and etc. Grab lxappearance and see if you can use it to set the icons. It may automatically list the icons if you have them installed.

Last edited by LeoSolaris (2009-01-25 01:42:57)

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