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sonycdr

Member

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 144

I can't change show desktop icon in the panel

Previous post with similar issue here

I've installed Boston icon theme: https://store.kde.org/p/1012402/ (locally ~/.local/share/icons)

Well, in my panel I have the Show Desktop plugin but... don't change its icon.

I create in Boston folder the icon in Apps called: org.xfce.panel.showdesktop.svg (copy of user-dekstop.svg)

Even, i added the next lines in my gtk.cssfile

#xfce4-showdesktop-plugin image {
	-gtk-icon-theme: 'Boston';
}

And finally... nothing!

What do I do wrong?

bggf

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Registered: 2026-04-13

Posts: 12

Re: I can't change show desktop icon in the panel

Hi Sonycdr,

You can try to go to the icon folder and rebuild the cache after having copied over the icon with:

gtk-update-icon-cache ./ --force

This should update the file "icon-theme.cache" (I think it should work without the --force, but I put it as option; then check the timestamp)

The icon is referenced in the file: /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/showdesktop.desktop

Previous post with similar issue here

I've installed Boston icon theme: https://store.kde.org/p/1012402/ (locally ~/.local/share/icons)

Well, in my panel I have the Show Desktop plugin but... don't change its icon.

I create in Boston folder the icon in Apps called: org.xfce.panel.showdesktop.svg (copy of user-dekstop.svg)

Even, i added the next lines in my gtk.cssfile

#xfce4-showdesktop-plugin image {
	-gtk-icon-theme: 'Boston';
}

And finally... nothing!

What do I do wrong?