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Beerforfree

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Registered: 2013-12-06

Posts: 12

Adding emblems to Thunar

in which folder should new icons added to use them as emblems?
I'm using Mint-X appearance

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,016

Re: Adding emblems to Thunar

In the icon theme's "emblems" folder (<icon_theme>/emblems/scalable/<icon>.svg).
Sized png files can be placed in the respective {8,16,22,24,32,48,64,96} folders under emblems
You'll need to change the icon theme away and back (or log out and in again) for it to show up in Thunar's folder->properties->emblems list.

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ssq

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Registered: 2022-08-07

Posts: 4

Re: Adding emblems to Thunar

In addition to the above:

In 2025's version of Xfce 4.18 you must name your icon file to start with "emblem-" according to a pattern such as: "emblem-*.svg".

Example:

emblem-git.svg

Also, you must rebuild the respective icon folder cache.

abelthorne

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Registered: 2020-03-02

Posts: 25

Re: Adding emblems to Thunar

Hasn't it always been the case? The base icon names from the FreeDesktop specs for emblems are named emblems-* since forever. I always assumed it was a mandatory pattern name for all emblems.