Lost light clipman icon variant for dark panel theme

sep · 2023-06-20 17:01:09

This is of course not critical, but I'm hoping to find where I can reset which icon is used for dark themes. I'm currently using MintY-Dark-Aqua and XFCE 4.14.2. The issue is just that the clipman panel icon is (nearly) dark on dark, used to be white on dark. I'm not sure if this is due to a recent update, or what change has affected this.

Last edited by sep (2023-06-20 17:01:40)

ToZ · 2023-06-20 17:27:21

Hello and welcome.
Which icon theme are you using?

sep · 2023-06-20 17:31:19

Apparently the theme uses elements from Vibrancy and Moka.

ToZ · 2023-06-20 18:35:22

What does the following return?

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName

Does changing the icon theme change the color of the icon?

sep · 2023-06-20 18:39:53

$ xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName
Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua

Changing the icon theme does not change the clipman icon, other icons will change to their light variant for light themed panels.

ToZ · 2023-06-20 19:14:01

Try this in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist):

#xfce4-clipman-plugin image {color: white}

you may need to restart the panel:

xfce4-panel -r

sep · 2023-06-20 19:17:18

Thanks, I did need to add the css file, afterwards restarted the panel, no change.

ToZ · 2023-06-20 23:15:39

Any chance you could post a screenshot? As well as the contents of your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file (just to be sure)?

Edit: Also:

ps -ef | grep -i clip

Last edited by ToZ (2023-06-20 23:51:42)

sep · 2023-06-21 15:21:18

$ ps -ef | grep -i clip
steve      60343       1  0 Jun19 ?        00:00:01 xfce4-clipman
steve     125634  123670  0 08:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i clip

Here is what the panel looks like with a dark theme
and here it is with a light theme for contrast.

Here's the gtk.css file, too. Like I said, I had to create the file

#xfce4-clipman-plugin image {color: white}

Even changing this to

#xfce4-clipman image {color: white}

and restarting the panel does not affect any changes.

Last edited by sep (2023-06-21 15:26:46)

ToZ · 2023-06-21 15:44:36

It looks like you've started xfce4-clipman via the menu (or autostart). This puts it in the systray and there is no easy way, short of changing the icon, to affect the icon. If however, you add the panel plugin to the panel, you will get it in its own plugin container, and easier to affect.

To do so, right-click and "Quit" the current clipman instance. Then right-click the panel and select Panel>Add new Items and add the clipman plugin to the panel.

If its still not white, make sure the gtk.css file says "#xfce4-clipman-plugin image {color: white}".

Lets see if this solves the issue.

sep · 2023-06-21 15:52:24

So weird, I actually don't have the Xfce4-clipman-plugin installed, only Xfce4-clipman, which doesn't require the plugin for the panel. But, when I try to install Xfce4-clipman-plugin I get a 403 from the mirror! This is the configured source that I have

http://mirror.rcg.sfu.ca/mirror/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xfce4-clipman-plugin/xfce4-clipman-plugin_1.4.4-1_amd64.deb

sep · 2023-06-21 16:23:41

I guess one of the things I was hoping to discover is how/why this happened in the first place with my current set-up, since this was never an issue until recently, like some directory permissions got inadvertently changed or something.

sep · 2023-06-21 17:47:53

After quitting the application in the panel, and re-starting it (the clipman application) I got the white icon, probably because of the css file; however, if I decide to use a light-colored theme, I'll have the same problem in reverse, the icon will be white-on-white.

ToZ · 2023-06-21 21:44:35

sep wrote:

After quitting the application in the panel, and re-starting it (the clipman application) I got the white icon, probably because of the css file; however, if I decide to use a light-colored theme, I'll have the same problem in reverse, the icon will be white-on-white.

The icon theme may be able to reverse the color of the icon. Try removing the gtk.css file to see if alternating light and dark themes works properly.

sep · 2023-06-22 17:21:00

If I remove the gtk.css, quit clipman, then switch to a light theme and restart it, the icon is still light-on-light.

ToZ · 2023-06-22 23:50:15

I can't seem to replicate this issue with these themes. The icon color changes for me. Which distro are you using?

Also, can you post back the results of:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep panels

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