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Nevu

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Registered: 2020-11-15

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Fluent icon theme not working properly on Arch Linux (Xfce)

On Arch Linux, I can't install the Fluent Icon theme. I do as told by the instructions, I ./install.sh in the directory, but I then immediately get spammed by errors like this:

sed: can't read /home/user/.local/share/icons/Fluent-yellow-dark/symbolic/status/weather-windy-symbolic.svg: No such file or directory.

Then, the error spam ends with a

gtk-update-icon-cache: No theme index file.

. The rest of the errors are pretty much identical but with different files in the same directories.  I got the icon theme by downloading the master zip file from the github: https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-icon-theme

I tried cloning the git repository and doing the install.sh there and it worked great, but some icons aren't used properly, especially in the panel.

On my Xubuntu 20.04 setup where I got the icon theme from the exact same github, the panel looks like this: https://imgur.com/ozXI9Lw (Ignore the bluetooth, battery and wifi icons, I don't need them on the Arch setup since it's a desktop.)

On my Arch setup though, it looks like this: https://imgur.com/tnroMBQ

As you can see, on the Xubuntu setup everything looks consistent and within the theme, well except for the shutdown button. On Arch however, you can clearly see that the lock screen button is default from Adwaita(I think), and that the logout and show desktop icons are entirely different. This is just puzzling, considering I got the icon theme from the same source on both machine, seems like it's the same version? I genuinely have no idea where it's pulling the alternate action buttons or the desktop button from, I even checked the icon files, there's no such icons in there... The logout prompt looks different too, on Xubuntu it used symbolic, minimal white icons for the logout prompt that match the panel icons, but on Arch it seems to again fall back to some sort of entirely different flat Papirus looking icons that don't match the theme? Hard to get a screenshot of that.

TL;DR - Fluent icon theme works great and looks consistent on Xubuntu, but on Arch it's only so-so, some icons aren't replaced and look different. Got the icons from the same github page and installed using the very same method on both machines. I want to at least to get the panel looking like on my Xubuntu setup, but I simply can't figure out why it's using entirely different icons.

Last edited by Nevu (2021-07-24 10:52:53)

SimonJ

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Re: Fluent icon theme not working properly on Arch Linux (Xfce)

Is there a reason you didn't just install from AUR?

yay -Ss fluent icon
aur/fluent-icon-theme-git r10.9e5e833-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A Fluent design icon theme

Last edited by SimonJ (2021-07-24 11:08:18)

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Nevu

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Re: Fluent icon theme not working properly on Arch Linux (Xfce)

Is there a reason you didn't just install from AUR?

yay -Ss fluent icon
aur/fluent-icon-theme-git r10.9e5e833-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A Fluent design icon theme

That works too, but the same issue of some icons not being replaced or being completely different persists.

cameo

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Re: Fluent icon theme not working properly on Arch Linux (Xfce)

That works too, but the same issue of some icons not being replaced or being completely different persists.

Sounds familiar to me; here's my own opened thread and solved issue at the xfce forums last year: [ link ]

HTH