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I couldn’t figure out how to make menus have icons.

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Notes/todo ∞

• http://muaythaimaster74.blogspot.com/2008/12/openbox-on-pclos-part-3.html

• https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox3-and-setting-a-gtk2-icon-theme-with-kde-644045/

  • Some later posts look insightful.

Previous failures ∞

Manage themes with:

obconf

Specify your own custom one in ~/.gtkrc.mine

gtk-icon-theme-name = "nuoveXT-aero"

By default, themes are found in /usr/share/icons , e.g. /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT-aero/

helper script idea:

MYTHEME=nuoveXT-aero
ICONDIR=/usr/share/icons

success=no
for i in `find $ICONDIR -maxdepth 1 -type d`;do
  if [ "$i" = "$ICONDIR"/"$MYTHEME" ]; then success=yes ; fi
done
if [ "$success" = "no" ]; then
  echo fail!
elif [ "$success" = "yes" ]; then
  echo "[ok] - $ICONDIR/$MYTHEME"
  echo gtk-icon-theme-name = \""$MYTHEME"\" > ~/.gtkrc.mine
else
  echo BAD BUG 1
fi

BUT, openbox actually uses the themes in /usr/share/themes , e.g. my current /usr/share/themes/minimal/openbox-3/themerc (minimal openbox style)

However, I see other themes like /usr/share/themes/Wonderland/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

export|grep gtk gives me nothing.

Someone else said to edit /home/user/.gtkrc-2.0-kde with:

gtk-icon-theme-name="Oxygen-Refit"

To force a test, I tried:

echo gtk-icon-theme-name = \"nuoveXT-aero\" > ~/.gtkrc.mine
su
cd /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT-aero/22x22/apps/
mv firefox.png firefox.png-
mv firefox-icon.png firefox-icon.png-
# And to avoid Firefox falling back on a default, I tried:
cp web-browser.png firefox.png
mv web-browser.png firefox-icon.png

No luck. This theme isn’t being used. I configured openbox largely by hand, and so I have ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml which references my minimal theme, so maybe I should just copy the structure from somewhere else and give minimal some icons. Then maybe I can hijack the Firefox icon.

su
cd /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT-aero/
cp -a nuoveXT-aero minimal
cd minimal/22x22/apps/
mv firefox.png firefox.png-
mv firefox-icon.png firefox-icon.png-
cp web-browser.png firefox.png
mv web-browser.png firefox-icon.png

No joy. It looks like ~/.gtkrc.mine is not being used to set the theme, because obconf is still set on minimal. So let’s try modifying minimal. I looked, and /usr/share/icons/minimal/index.theme says that the toolbar default is 24, so I tried correcting that:

cd /usr/share/icons/minimal/24x24/apps/
mv firefox.png firefox.png-
mv firefox-icon.png firefox-icon.png-
cp web-browser.png firefox.png
mv web-browser.png firefox-icon.png

No joy. Now let’s assume that the icons are being scaled from elsewhere. So I’ll try deleting all but the largest icons.

su
cd /usr/share/icons/minimal/
# WARNING: rm -rf AS ROOT, so don't screw up this command!
find -maxdepth 1 -type d \
! -name extra \
! -name . \
! -name 128x128 \
-exec rm -rf {} \;

cd 128x128/apps/
mv firefox.png firefox.png-
mv firefox-icon.png firefox-icon.png-
cp web-browser.png firefox.png
mv web-browser.png firefox-icon.png

No luck.

I checked for an icon default. I see /usr/share/icons/default has only index.theme but inside it only has

# [Icon Theme]
# Inherits=whiteglass

Since everything is commented out

Btw, I also looked at every icon in /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT-aero/24x24/ and I could not find the icon being used for the applications which I want to update. So something’s definitely awry.

I did not edit /usr/share/icons/minimal/index.theme and so it’s just a copy from the other theme, so it would be a bit incorrect inside.