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woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

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For some reason I cannot change the icon for show desktop plugin.

Until the latest update it was working just fine. Out of a sudden my edited icons reverted back to default.

My setup was that I just had created a copy of the icon folder I like and replaced user-desktop.svg with my own.

Now it's not working, also i realised when I change icon size nothing happens. I'll replace my icon with all icon sizes though before only 22 was sufficed.

What I don't understand is that it changes with themes and from what I can tell right now it's using user-blue-desktop.svg but why, I can't tell.

ToZ

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Re: For some reason I cannot change the icon for show desktop plugin.

If you are running the newer 4.16 version of Xfce, the icon names have changed for most Xfce components. The showdesktop plugin now uses "org.xfce.panel.showdesktop" instead of "user-desktop".

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woistmeinauto

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Re: For some reason I cannot change the icon for show desktop plugin.

If you are running the newer 4.16 version of Xfce, the icon names have changed for most Xfce components. The showdesktop plugin now uses "org.xfce.panel.showdesktop" instead of "user-desktop".

Thanks, but there is no such file in  /usr/share/icons 

Where does one have to look for that?

ToZ

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Re: For some reason I cannot change the icon for show desktop plugin.

By default, xfce4-panel 4.16 should put one in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps. You can also create them if needed.

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woistmeinauto

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Re: For some reason I cannot change the icon for show desktop plugin.

Ok, it works for adwaita but doesn't work for papirus-dark-maia for some reason.

Edit: Found it /usr/share/icons/Papirus/22x22/apps/cs-desktop.svg

22x22 because that s the size i'm using.

Last edited by woistmeinauto (2021-02-04 08:33:53)