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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Panel icon for Xfce Terminal/Root Terminal

We are near release of MX-16 with two default themes, light and dark. The icon for the two terminals is set to the default icon set, and that shows up correctly in Whisker (e.g., a red terminal for Root). But when launched, the Panel icon is just a very dark generic icon and nearly invisible in the dark theme.

I looked in the terminalrc file in /.config/terminal/ and consulted the hidden options doc http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/advanced without success. Is even possible to change that icon?

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MX-23 (based on Debian Stable) with our flagship Xfce 4.18.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,493

Re: Panel icon for Xfce Terminal/Root Terminal

Jerry,
In situations like this where I want to change the window buttons icon, I use xseticon (the first version, not the latest as I can't get the latest version to work properly, though I haven't tried in a while).

I create an executable file like /usr/local/bin/root_terminal with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

### EDIT THESE VALUES #########################################################
APP="/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal"
ICON="/usr/local/share/root-terminal.png"    	# icon file - only png supported
WAIT=1                			        # wait time - adjust until icon changes
###############################################################################

###############################################################################
### DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW
###############################################################################
function change-panel-icon {

    sleep $WAIT
    activeWinLine=$(xprop -root | grep "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)")
    activeWinId="${activeWinLine:40}"

    xseticon -id "$activeWinId" "$ICON"
}

$APP & sleep $WAIT & change-panel-icon

The icon file needs to be a png file and is referenced in the first part of the script. I call the script via:

gksudo root_terminal

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Jerry3904

Member

Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: Panel icon for Xfce Terminal/Root Terminal

Thanks, ToZ. This has been busting my chops this morning!

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MX-23 (based on Debian Stable) with our flagship Xfce 4.18.