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aalbani

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Registered: 2023-03-30

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Find out icon name

Is there a command to find out which icon the network manager uses in the systray?

ToZ

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Re: Find out icon name

I don't know of any direct way to identify the icon being used, its usually trial and error to figure it out. However, the network manager is a separate application (assuming that you are using nm-applet). In that case you could use strace to see what files are successfully accessed/opened.

First, kill the application:

pkill nm-applet

Then run it through strace like this:

strace -e trace=openat nm-applet 2>&1 | grep -v ENOENT

...and at the bottom of the output, you will see something like:

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Qogir/16/panel/nm-signal-75.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
...
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Qogir/16/panel/nm-secure-lock.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Qogir/16/panel/nm-signal-50.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Qogir/16/panel/nm-signal-100.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Qogir/16/panel/nm-signal-25.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16

Those are the icons being used.

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aalbani

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Registered: 2023-03-30

Posts: 28

Re: Find out icon name

That worked...
A thousand thanks