Certain applications not honouring icon theme

2Karl · 2014-03-16 22:13:35

Hi guys, I'm having a little problem with a custom icon theme.

I'm using ACYL (AnyColorYouLike), and for the most part it's working fine. However there are certain applications which do not show the ACYL icon in the taskbar (I'm using AwesomeWM), despite the fact that correctly named icons exist within the theme.

Currently affected apps include: Pidgin, Terminator, Gimp, Eclipse, Filezilla, libreoffice, nvidia-settings, baobab, blender possibly more.

Other apps play nice (like Geany, Inkscape, Firefox, Thunar, Thunderbird etc.)

I've tried numerous things to fix the issue, including reapplying the theme in lxappearance, messing around with qt-config, setting my icon theme in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, setting the gnome icon theme using dconf-editor (I have also added export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome and export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0" to my .xinitrc), but nothing seems to make these apps want to use the icon theme as the other apps do.

Has anyone come across this issue before? I noticed that there was a terminator-specific fix in one thread, but I'd like to be able to fix all the apps (even if it's on a tedious per-app basis).

Thanks for any help.

[Edit: I fixed VLC with:

gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme ACYL_Icon_Theme_0.9.4

The other apps are still not showing the correct icons, however.

Last edited by 2Karl (2014-03-16 22:40:45)

toz · 2014-03-17 03:07:38

Not exactly sure why some applications use different icons for the taskbar/panel (embedded in the code?), but you can use xseticon to change that icon.

Here is a thread that shows how to automate the process.

2Karl · 2014-03-17 20:15:47

Thanks for the link. I'm currently looking into xseticon as a "last resort", although I think I will be using it for some of my terminal apps anyway (like ncmpcpp for instance).

I've managed to fix Pidgin's icon - it was pulling in the icon from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ so I just exported my pidgin.svg as a 16x16 png and symlinked it there. Tried the same approach for Blender and Terminator, but no joy. It certainly is a headscratcher. I'll keep trying.

Edit: fixed terminator by editing the file /usr/lib/pythin2.7/site-packages/terminatorlib/window.py and specifying the location of my icon on line 64. No headway with Blender so far, I will try to sort out the others tomorrow. Eclipse and Baobab are strange in that they don't display an incorrect icon, they display no icon at all (which to be honest is preferable to the wrong icon). Also I fully appreciate that this is the most minor of minor issues, but it's the principle of the thing.

Further edit: fixed filezilla by replacing the icon in /usr/share/filezilla/resources/48x48

Last edited by 2Karl (2014-03-17 22:19:04)

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#1 2014-03-16 22:13:35

Certain applications not honouring icon theme

#2 2014-03-17 03:07:38

Re: Certain applications not honouring icon theme

#3 2014-03-17 20:15:47

Re: Certain applications not honouring icon theme

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