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Monkeet1

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Registered: 2019-01-10

Posts: 3

System tray icons are pixelated and disproportional

Hi,

I'm using i3wm with a hidpi display and I have some problems with pixelated and disproportional system tray icons. I link an example of the Enpass' and VLC's icon.

Note that my other icons on my system tray (nm-applet and caffeine) are correclty rendered.

Is there a way to define a custom tray icon for an application or can I just disable the icon for a particular app ?

Thanks!

Last edited by Monkeet1 (2019-01-10 05:35:59)

Lupo Alberto

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From: Gomel, Belarus

Registered: 2013-11-25

Posts: 84

Re: System tray icons are pixelated and disproportional

Could you say what sort of bar you use? And give us to look at its setting.

Monkeet1

Member

Registered: 2019-01-10

Posts: 3

Re: System tray icons are pixelated and disproportional

Sure. I use i3bar. Here are my settings :

bar {
        status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/i3blocks.conf
        position top
}

By default, the bar shows all the system tray icons. I can only set the option tray_output none|primary|<output> or  tray_padding <px> [px]. I don't think this issue is caused by the bar itself, but maybe because I use a hidpi display.

For my dpi settings, I've set my ~/.Xresources like this :

Xft.dpi: 185
Xcursor.size: 48

I've experiment with hardcode-tray and the icons are changing. I first tought that this application changed the icons in /usr/share/icons but nothing changed there when I ran the app. Note that I also use the Papirus icon theme. I use lxappearance to change the icon theme.

After a bit of research, I think that my problem is gtk related. I've seen this post and it is very similar.

Unfortunately, the fix has not been posted...

Any ideas of what is happening ?

Thanks!