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Joe_Arch

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Registered: 2008-11-27

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Thunar is missing icons, and generally ugly. Help?[SOLVED]

So I just set up Arch yesterday, and am using thunar. But the icons in thunar are very... limited. Take a look at my screenshot. As it is, I can't tell the difference between folders and files. Anyone mind telling me what I'm doing wrong?

Last edited by Joe_Arch (2009-03-09 04:05:18)

djnm

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Re: Thunar is missing icons, and generally ugly. Help?[SOLVED]

Looks like you need a gtk theme and an icon theme...
Download some from http://www.gnome-look.org/ then install them to a .icons/ and .themes/ folder and define them in your .gtkrc file, or install lxappearance to make them work.

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pyther

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Re: Thunar is missing icons, and generally ugly. Help?[SOLVED]

You probably need to install hicolor-icon-theme for your icons.

As for the uglyness you need to tell gtk to use a theme. You can use lxappearance to set the gtk theme, icon set, and other settings. You will probably have to go to http://gnome-look.org and pick out a them that you like. I personally like Murrina Gilouche.

Take a look at the openbox wiki under Themes + Appearance: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … Appearance

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Joe_Arch

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Re: Thunar is missing icons, and generally ugly. Help?[SOLVED]

Hehe, thanks guys!

I guess this is just something I took for granted, coming from Ubuntu. It's an obvious answer, now that you mention it.