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aalbani

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Whisker menu strange behavior

The whisker menu doesn't accept an icon theme. Everything else works correctly.

ToZ

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

Can you explain more what you mean?

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aalbani

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

The whisker menu has some symbol theme. I've now changed the global symbol theme in the XFCE settings, which works fine. However, the whisker menu still has the old symbol theme; it's not adopting the changed symbol theme, unlike in previous installations.

ToZ

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

Is it all icons in whiskermenu, or just the whiskermenu icon on the panel? Any chance you can post a screenshot?

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aalbani

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

According to the icon theme, these should be symbolic icons.

ToZ

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

Which icon theme is this? Does this icon theme include symbolic icons for the icons that are not symbolic now?

Try opening the applications menu (if enabled, right-clicking on the desktop you can see it under "Applications") or add the applicationsmenu to the panel. Are the icons there all symbolic?

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aalbani

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

I'm using the Mactahoe icon theme by Vinceliuice. But no matter which icon theme I use, the Whisker Menu doesn't change.

ToZ

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

Does the applicationsmenu show the same icons, or different icons?

Do you have a ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file? If so, can you post it's contents?

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aalbani

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

The icons are different; unfortunately, I don't know which theme the menu uses.

And no, I don't have a settings.ini file.

ToZ

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Re: Whisker menu strange behavior

I don't know which theme the menu uses.

It would use the icon theme that you selected - in this case Mactahoe icon theme. Are these icons correct?

The MacTahoe icon theme doesn't appear to create symbolic icons for the apps, as you can see in the screenshot at that site.

From your screenshot, I see 3 different areas of icons: the categories at the side, the app icons in the middle, and the settings icons at the top. It would appear that the icon theme is missing some of the category symbolic icons and doesn't include any for apps and the settings at the top. If you look at the icon theme's issues list (open and closed issues), you can see where specific icons requests are being made and accommodated.

If you are looking for an icon theme that provides ALL icons as symbolic icons, you may need to look for another icon theme. Since this theme is made up or svg icon files, you could try adding:

#whiskermenu-window * {-gtk-icon-style: symbolic}

...to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to see if it helps. It should force the use of symbolic icons but only if a symbolic version of that icon exists.

Last edited by ToZ (2026-05-03 17:49:38)

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