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ahmeteid

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window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

i'm using docklike plugin because of pinnig of app, and showing icon with right way, but the problem of it is mismatching a lot of icon like icon of panel app , and panel plugin apps,launcher,authentication window etc, and some app like windscribe,4kvideodownloder,ventoy,etc.

so i deside to return to window buttons plugin, but it has very bad icon size for apps, i have searched about that some talking about resize panel to be 32 or 36 pix, i do that but that make all icon in panel large, i want to resize icon apps only(window button) not volume icon or notification icon etc.
I have found others was taking about gtk3 css, but there r talking about a bug in it.
I have tried dockbarx plugin ,it is very very good , but the big problem about it is using double ram compare to the docklike or window buttons.
Is there a way to avoid problems of all?

Last edited by ahmeteid (2022-08-15 14:01:04)

File Manager

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

I think Docklike is sensitive about having the executable and the icon named exactly the same.
For example, if the executable is called "palemoon", then the icon should be named "palemoon"(.png) too.
Try this and see if it makes a difference.

I'm not using Docklike so it's more of a guess, but I remember someone writing there can be a problem associating icons with executables if their names are mismatched. So for some unknown reason normal association in the .desktop file fails.

ToZ

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

I'm not using Docklike so it's more of a guess, but I remember someone writing there can be a problem associating icons with executables if their names are mismatched. So for some unknown reason normal association in the .desktop file fails.

Yes, they use different methods to ascertain icon names - docklike plugin uses desktop file info and window buttons plugin uses libwnck.

@ahmeteid, have a read through this thread (starting at post #11) for some ideas and suggestions on tweaking icon sizes.

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ahmeteid

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

I don't think that, I have faced a lot of icon of app not matched in docklike in panel, i have solved a lot of them by refer to icon path to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps. and make copy of .desktop of app at /usr/share/applications. and worked good. and i have tried it on authentication window, and worked,
but that not worked for ventoy, windscribe , and plugin of panel like status try plugin,  pulseaudio plugin, etc plugins

ahmeteid

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

@Administrator
sorry i want to ensure about file of gtk3.css, it is in the home directory?, i have one in that directory /home/eid/.config/gtk-3.0, and that it's content:

style "my-xfce-tasklist-style"
{
    XfceTasklist::max-button-size = 200
   
    
}
class "XfceTasklist" style "my-xfce-tasklist-style"

If it is that the target file, what i should do , i mean clear it's content and add the content of post 11 of your linked thread?

Last edited by KBar (2022-08-16 03:56:44)

KBar

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

Yes, per-user GTK configuration is in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.

The above rule is for GTK2 and is therefore invalid in GTK3. It is safe to remove all of the lines.

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ahmeteid

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

Yes, per-user GTK configuration is in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.

The above rule is for GTK2 and is therefore invalid in GTK3. It is safe to remove all of the lines.

that mean that no solution for that?

KBar

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

that mean that no solution for that?

What's "that" that you're referring to?

I just confirmed and clarified that indeed ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css is the file you need to edit and I stated that you can safely remove its current contents, which you shared, because they're invalid anyway. After that, follow the suggestions and add whatever lines you need to come to a solution.

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ahmeteid

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Re: window buttons vs docklike ( all have problems with icon)

sorry i misunderstand that, i'm not native english speaker, i thought u talk about it's working only with gtk2, and not work in gtk3. I tried it but it doesn't work. i will return to docklike again and i will try find solutions for unsuported apps in it