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bigbadaboum

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[SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

Hello,

Several programs displays a miniature instead of an icon in "window buttons",For Gimp and Phototonic it is a good idea but I would like to see icons for other tools.

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ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

Its hard to see those icons. What are you referring to when you say "miniature"?

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bigbadaboum

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

example: currently when Catfish is open, I see a white rectangle with a blue bar above in the task bar, I would like to have the cat with a monocle.

I added: Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/catfish.svg  in /usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop, But that only changes the icon in the start menu of XFCE.

vm_x

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

Maybe a theme issue?

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

example: currently when Catfish is open, I see a white rectangle with a blue bar above in the task bar, I would like to have the cat with a monocle.

I added: Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/catfish.svg  in /usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop, But that only changes the icon in the start menu of XFCE.

What are the contents of the /usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop file? Does it have a StartupWMClass entry?

Also what icon theme are you using and what version of Xfce are you running?

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bigbadaboum

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

I use Tela-icon-theme-2025-02-10 and numix-icon-theme-25.01.31.

xfdesktop-4.12.5
glib2-2.57.3
gtk+2-2.24.31
gtk+3-3.22.26

/usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.3.2
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Catfish
Comment=File search
Comment[fr]=Recherche de fichiers
Categories=GTK;Utility;Filesystem;
Exec=catfish
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/catfish.svg
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

xfdesktop-4.12.5

Are you really using Xfce 4.12? Thats like 10 years old. What distro are you running?

If it is in fact 4.12, things worked much differently back then.

A couple of things you can try.

1. Create an ~/.icons folder and copy the catfish.svg file there. Then change your desktop file's Icon line to read:

   Icon=catfish

2. Here is a workaround you can try using that worked on 4.16 - it requires the xseticon package - hopefully thats available to you.

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bigbadaboum

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

with papirus and human theme, the problem is not corrected.
after update to xfdesktop-4.14.4, the problem is not corrected.
segmentation fault with xseticon-0.1-bzr13 and xseticon-0.1-bzr14 (with gcc-6.5 and 9.5)

Create an ~/.icons folder and copy the catfish.svg file there. Then change your desktop file's Icon line to read:
Icon=catfish
this only changes the icon in the Start menu

Projects afflicted:

avidemux-2.8.2 (git)     (white rectangle with a blue bar above)
catfish-0.3.2                (white rectangle with a blue bar above)
gaupol-1.15                 (white rectangle with a blue bar above)

If anyone knows how to change the icons in the “widow button” task bar, please let me know, even if it's complicated.

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

Thinking out loud here, possibly wrong, and I know you mentioned 'Window Buttons' specifically, though the blue line in the attached image sort of reminds me of how the Docklike Taskbar displayed icons before I swapped it for Window Buttons, though I'm not sure when it became available in what version of Xfce.

Maybe have a look in the Panel settings > Items tab, if Docklike Taskbar is there remove it and add Window Buttons instead.
Maybe try creating a new Panel?
Or perhaps create another default account and see if it works ok in that.
Perhaps try swapping between Vertical and Deskbar modes?

About the only time I remember seeing icons showing plain rectangles is when I broke something to do with icons messing with the different icon sets.

bigbadaboum

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Re: [SOLVED]Is it possible to deactivate miniatures in the window buttons?

/usr$find ./ -type l -exec file {} \; | grep broken
./share/catfish/locale: broken symbolic link to /tmp/SBo/package-catfish//usr/share/locale
./share/catfish/catfish.svg: broken symbolic link to /tmp/SBo/package-catfish//usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/catfish.svg

Error during the build of the package, I relaunch the build and reinstall, the icon of Catfish returned