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paledread

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Registered: 2018-01-27

Posts: 14

Icon for new item in Settings Manager

Thanks to all those involved in developing XFCE. It is an excellent Window Manager.

Having spent several hours manually editing .desktop files and xfce-applications.menu I'm now totally happy with my desktop menu with just one small exception.

I'd like to add HP Toolbox to the Settings Manager with an HP icon.

I have it showing up under the desktop Settings menu with an HP icon, and I have it showing up in Settings Manager, but in S.M. the entry lacks the HP icon.

Am I right in thinking that all the icons shown in Settings Manager are drawn from the Appearance / Icons setting and not from the .desktop file, which probably means there is no HP icon available?

Is there any way of persuading the icon to show it's head in Setting Manager?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,491

Re: Icon for new item in Settings Manager

Does this persist after you restart the computer?

Can we see your .desktop file?

Which distro and which version of Xfce are you running? Also:

xfsettingsd -V

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paledread

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Registered: 2018-01-27

Posts: 14

Re: Icon for new item in Settings Manager

Yes it persists through a re-boot.

~/.local/applications/hplip.desktop is :

[Desktop Entry]
Name=HPLIP cd Toolbox
# GenericName=Printer Toolbox
Comment=HP Printing System Control Center
# Exec=hp-toolbox
Exec=sh -c 'STARTED_FROM_MENU=yes /usr/bin/hp-toolbox'
Icon=/usr/share/hplip/data/images/32x32/hp_logo.png
Categories=Settings;DesktopSettings;X-XFCE-SettingsDialog;X-XFCE-HardwareSettings;
# Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
NotShowIn=KDE;
NoDisplay=false
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
X-XfcePluggable=true
Path=
Terminal=false

I'm using Linux Mint 19 Tara with XFCE 4.12.

xfsettingsd -V yields :

xfsettingsd 4.12.4 (Xfce 4.12)

Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,491

Re: Icon for new item in Settings Manager

It looks like you have found a bug. Please create a bug report against the Settings Manager in the xfce4-settings package here.

As a workaround, copy /usr/share/hplip/data/images/32x32/hp_logo.png to ~/.icons and use the following icon line:

Icon=hp_logo

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paledread

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Registered: 2018-01-27

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Re: Icon for new item in Settings Manager

Thanks.

The bug is filed.

Your workaround is fine. That is all I really needed.