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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

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[solved] icon theme not working

hello there,

trying to get this icon theme to work.  it's a clone of win11 icons.  i cant get the icons to look like they should.  what am i missing? i installed the icon pack to /usr/share/icons

https://github.com/yeyushengfan258/Win11-icon-theme

what icons should like like:

icons in thunar. they kind of look right. just not color. i am using adwaita-dark theme.  i tried adwaita theme too but no change

Last edited by callmejoe (2023-08-25 04:32:16)

ToZ

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Re: [solved] icon theme not working

Your thunar is running as root. How are you starting the root instance?

Do the icons work properly if you run thunar with your regular profile (not root)?

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callmejoe

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Re: [solved] icon theme not working

Your thunar is running as root. How are you starting the root instance?

Do the icons work properly if you run thunar with your regular profile (not root)?

i login as root from the DM

and the icons do work if i login as the regular user.  why would that be?  some errant gtk settings profile maybe?

ToZ

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Re: [solved] icon theme not working

Hmmm. Setting aside the whole logging in as root thing (maybe its somehow preventing it from working), it should work. When you are logged in as root, can you post back:

ps -ef | grep -i thunar
ps -ef | grep xfconf
ls /root/.config/gtk-3.0

Also, which distro and version of Xfce are you running?

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callmejoe

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Re: [solved] icon theme not working

i'm using arch.  xfce version 4.18

root@ArchMan ~ # ps -ef | grep -i thunar
root     3643850 3643794  2 21:58 ?        00:00:01 Thunar --daemon
root     3648576 3643966  0 21:59 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i thunar
root@ArchMan ~ # ps -ef | grep xfconf
root     3640346     737  0 21:57 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
root     3649836 3643966  0 21:59 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto xfconf
root@ArchMan ~ # ls /root/.config/gtk-3.0
bookmarks  gtk.css.old  settings.ini

EDIT: just loaded pcmanfm and icons work there.  i guess something in thunar settings?

Last edited by callmejoe (2023-08-25 02:13:36)

callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 75

Re: [solved] icon theme not working

well looks like i stumbled on a fix.

if i zoom in the icons display properly.  seems like every icon size except 24px size renders properly