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haywirespark

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Registered: 2014-08-13

Posts: 2

Openbox Decor Icons

Openbox insists on using the default openbox decor icon for nearly all my applications.

I've had some minor success with xseticon for setting the icon for rxvt-unicode, but this solution isn't very good. I have to issue a command from my .bashrc just to get it to set the icon every time.

The funny thing is I have my icon theme in my gtkrc-2.0 setup correctly; synapse launcher recognizes my icon theme and works perfectly for all my installed applications.

Anyone else have any problems like this? I've searched everywhere for some answers, but the best I've been able to dig up is the xseticon workaround.

Last edited by haywirespark (2014-08-13 18:23:47)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: Openbox Decor Icons

xseticon seems to be the only solution unfortunately.
openbox uses X11 window icons, which is legacy stuff (that no-one really shouldn't be using any more imho), and completely different from freedesktop icon themes.
afaik only option to xseticon would be patching every application individually to use the icon you want.

haywirespark

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Registered: 2014-08-13

Posts: 2

Re: Openbox Decor Icons

Yep, that's a real bummer. I've search far and wide now, I guess the only thing left to do now is develop my own solution. Time to checkout the openbox repo...

drcouzelis

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Openbox Decor Icons

What are the "Openbox decor icons"? Do you mean the maximize, minimize, close buttons?

If you mean the application icon, isn't that set by the application itself? Rxvt can set its own application too, it just needs to be set in the "~/.Xdefaults" file.