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furycd001

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[ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

HI Guys..

I have a bunch of folders bookmarked in my thunar side pane, and I've created some custom icons that I would like to use for them. How can I make thunar use these new icons instead of the default folder icon? I currently have various sizes of them saved into the various folders within places (22, 24 etc), but I'm pretty sure there's more I need to do, but I can't find out what that is.

For info most of the bookmarked folder are on an external drive that has been symlinked to my home folder "/home/furycd001/Raccoonn/".

Many thanks in advance for any help or replies....

Last edited by furycd001 (2023-05-19 12:05:22)

ToZ

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

Thunar uses GTK3's bookmarking function for this and GTK3 bookmarks don't support icons, only bookmark and optional bookmark label.

Ref: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/bl … ager.c#L89

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furycd001

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

Okay, so I can't change the bookmark icons. Would it be possible to change the icons for the folders directly instead and then add them back into the places sidebar?

ToZ

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

Interestingly yes!

First, you need to enable thumbnails for folders. Then, when you add the folder as a bookmark, it will use the customized thumbnail in the sidebar.

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furycd001

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

Interestingly yes!

First, you need to enable thumbnails for folders. Then, when you add the folder as a bookmark, it will use the customized thumbnail in the sidebar.

Oh, that is interesting! Thanks Checking this out now, but will mark the thread as solved....

ToZ

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Icons in thunar sidebar..

Demonstration screenshot:

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