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-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

I appreciate your patience and don't worry... I have dealt with unruly icons many, many times. It will get solved.

Thank you. Now my icon theme is in both the directories but the problem is still there.

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

I just instaleld and added Pulsaudio to my XFCE system, then added it to the panel. It immediately used the icon in my icons folder called pulseaudio.png
I then checked the Abyss-Deep-Suru folder and it does contain a Pulseaudio icon in apps/48 and other sizes.
Switched to Suru icon set.
Interestingly, the panel icon changed to the Volume control icon- which I think is the one you preferred.

I am getting the same result with Franz. The Suru style icon is what is used.

Could you run in terminal

xfce4-panel --version

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

Interestingly, the panel icon changed to the Volume control icon- which I think is the one you preferred.

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I am getting the same result with Franz. The Suru style icon is what is used.

I'm using the Suru one too and yes, that's the icon I'd like to use.

Could you run in terminal

xfce4-panel --version

iak@iakhp:~$ xfce4-panel --version
xfce4-panel 4.12.2 (Xfce 4.12)

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Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

Ok, so your panel and XFdesktop match versions.
Can you open the index.theme in your Suru folder and check if ther eis a line that says, "inherits" at the top somewhere?

Can you check what Theme (not icon theme, desktop theme) you are using?
In that folder, you should see another index.theme. Please check it for "IconTheme=____"

If nothing there is a lead, you might try in terminal

gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/Abyss-DEEP-Suru

Or

gtk-update-icon-cache --force /home/<Your User Name>/.icons/Abyss-DEEP-Suru

Last edited by Aravisian (2020-02-17 13:27:54)

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

There's not "Inherits" line in the index file of the icon theme. I edited the theme's index file so now its' "IconTheme=Abyss-DEEP-Suru",

then tried

gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/Abyss-DEEP-Suru

but nothing changed.

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

I'd like to run an XFCE 4.12 desktop with 4.12 panel and replicate this. If I can replicate it, then go about trying to solve it- If I cannot replicate it, see if I can find out why. It may take another day or so- assuming no other contributions to this thread.

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

That'd be great, thank you!

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

A quick update- I have been Busy- really busy...
I have had time to make a Quick Post here and there but I have not had a chance to set aside a machine to load up XFCE 4.12 and do deep testing. As I type this, another version of Abyss Deep Suru is downloading... I just wanted to check in and let you know I had not forgotten and was not ignoring this issue.

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

I ran a LiveCD mode of Zorin 12.4 with XFCE 4.12 earlier and then tried using Abyss Deep Suru. I saw the same effect you described.
I then went through the Suru folders and compared the icons on the panel to the ones you would prefer to use. The ones you want to use are stored in folder PANEL whereas the icon being used is the gouping of Volume Icons in the folder STATUS.
Could you try replacing the white Volume Icons in Status with the Blue ones from Panel and see if that resolves?
That did the trick for me.

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

Could you try replacing the white Volume Icons in Status with the Blue ones from Panel and see if that resolves?
That did the trick for me.

The blue ones were already in the "status" folder, as I made a similar attempt earlier. I overwrote them just to be sure, but nothing changes.

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

Could you try replacing the white Volume Icons in Status with the Blue ones from Panel and see if that resolves?
That did the trick for me.

The blue ones were already in the "status" folder, as I made a similar attempt earlier. I overwrote them just to be sure, but nothing changes.

This is troublesome, because I cannot replicate what you are experiencing. In a way, I can, but it resolves with the easy solutions above. Something about our systems is clearly different but figuring out what the difference is- not so easy...
I tested above using a LiveCD, which is almost the same as a fresh install.

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

I ran a LiveCD mode of Zorin 12.4 with XFCE 4.12

I'm using Debian 10, is it the same thing?

Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

No... reasonably similar that Icons should work the same.
I was hoping to avoid downloading and creating a bootable medium- but I may need to.

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

There's really no need to do that, we're talking about two icons. I'll find a way to install Xfce 4.14. Thank you very much for you effort.

-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

Update:
I switched to Xfce 4.14 and upgraded xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to version 0.4.2-1 but nothing really changed.

EDIT:

I also restored the panel's default settings

xfce4-panel --quit ; pkill xfconfd ; rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml ; xfce4-panel;

Where else can the problem be?

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Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

There's really no need to do that, we're talking about two icons. I'll find a way to install Xfce 4.14. Thank you very much for you effort.

True- but I also understand the feeling of frustration when things just do not work as expected.

Where else can the problem be?

Would you be willing to do a LiveCD of the "XFCE using" Distro of your choice... Maybe MX linux or Mint- just try a Downloaded pre-made OS on LiveCD version, install the Icon set (You can move them into the trial version by opening your FM, selecting Other locations (nautilus, nemo) or navigating to your normal partition Thunar, etc.)) and then selecting from Appearances and see if you can duplicate or if they work?

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-iak-

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

On MX the Pulse icon works well, the Franz's one is still wrong

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Aravisian

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Re: Not every tray icon is using the system theme

On MX the Pulse icon works well, the Franz's one is still wrong

On mine, it was the other way around- but at least is a step in the right direction. As we covered above; it was a quick and easy fix on mine to get both running.
This result implies that something about your current set up is interfering, rather than a flaw in how the icon package is arranged.
The only thing I can think to do is to find the icons you wish to replace and replace them in the location where the app looks for them.
For example:
Screenlets puts its icons directly in /usr/share/icons but not in a specific subfolder. Others put theirs in /usr/share/pixmap
Some are in /opt/<the installed software folder name>