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znst

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Registered: 2017-12-19

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Wrong icon on tint2 [Solved]

Hi, I'm new here and this is my first post.

I'm using Termite as my terminal emulator. I set a custom icon for it, and it works perfectly with plank (dock app), but it shows another icon on tint2 (it shows the wrong icon on the openbox windows as well, but I disabled icons on windows, so that doesn't really matter to me).

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ptizr

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by znst (2017-12-20 15:52:00)

justasug

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Registered: 2014-08-03

Posts: 174

Re: Wrong icon on tint2 [Solved]

I think that the Icon= line in Desktop files only affects the Desktop file itself. Basically it's what icon will be used for the program in menus and docks that utilize the Desktop files. Openbox and tint2 show the program's "actual" icon. What you're seeing is the default Openbox icon for programs that don't have one. Look at /usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.png.

As for how to solve your problem: either replace the default Openbox icon (bad solution) or address the issue on the Termite bug tracker (I might be wrong, but maybe Termite doesn't explicitly set one for itself?).

Just found this in the config file for Termite, have you tried setting the icon with that?
https://github.com/thestinger/termite/b … ter/config

Last edited by justasug (2017-12-20 12:20:46)

znst

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Registered: 2017-12-19

Posts: 2

Re: Wrong icon on tint2 [Solved]

Thanks! All I needed to do is uncomment icon_name=terminal in the termite config file. I also set the termite.desktop file's icon to "terminal", now it's both the same.