[SOLVED] How to get gnome apps like gedit and Archive Manager to display their icons

GameCodingNinja · 06-03-2015, 06:51 PM

I'm using Xfce as my desktop. I have the latest Xfce which I believe supports GTK+3. I'm not sure what to do.

ReaperX7 · 06-03-2015, 08:22 PM

You have to run the cache updaters as described with the gtk, gdk, glib, pango, icons, fonts, ldconfig, and such packages. I normally keep a script for these to run at boot time once off of inittab in the background while X loads.

Keith Hedger · 06-04-2015, 04:35 AM

If you want a script this is mine:

Code:

#!/bin/bash -e

#©keithhedger Tue 10 Feb 19:40:20 GMT 2015 kdhedger68713@gmail.com

mkdir -vp /etc/pango ||true
/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
fc-cache -f
gtk-update-icon-cache --ignore-theme-index --force /usr/share/icons/hicolor||true
gtk-update-icon-cache --ignore-theme-index --force /usr/share/icons/gnome||true
/usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules||true
update-mime-database -V /usr/share/mime||true
update-desktop-database -v /usr/share/applications||true
mkdir -vp /var/cache/man/fsstnd||true
mandb -c

You don't need to run it at every boot, only when you have made changes, ie added an application, font etc.

Krejzi · 06-04-2015, 07:11 AM

If setting a GTK+3 theme doesn't work from Xfce4 settings, then try setting the icon-theme manually as described on the GTK+3 page using $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini or /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (system wide).

GameCodingNinja · 06-04-2015, 11:18 AM

Thanks Keith! Your script works! I'm analyzing it to figure out what it does so that I can incorporate it into my build process. I'm already doing some of this stuff when installing icons and the desktop. I know I have nothing related to pango being done.

Cool, finally, after all this time I see icons in these apps.

PS. Some icons are still missing but it looks to be related to the icon theme. For example, the icon theme "Cheser" had all the icons where as "hicolor" and "gnome" were missing some.

Keith Hedger · 06-04-2015, 02:04 PM

I have Cheser installed as well mainly for testing as I know it isn't a complete icon set.

GameCodingNinja · 06-04-2015, 05:28 PM

What icon set do you that works well?

Keith Hedger · 06-04-2015, 05:33 PM

Here's some of mine:

http://xfce-look.org/content/show.ph...content=150858
http://xfce-look.org/content/show.ph...content=150142
http://keithhedger.darktech.org/pages/themes.html

Sorry blatent plug

Krejzi · 06-05-2015, 02:41 AM

adwaita-icon-theme and oxygen-icons provide decent icon set and both are in BLFS. Yes, they are part of GNOME and KDE, but nothing's stoping you from installing them on any other desktop. Note that adwaita-icon-theme contains 3 other gnome-icon-themes + additions since the merging.

GameCodingNinja · 06-19-2015, 01:28 PM

Keith, I just want to thank you again for the script. I've added it to the end of my build process. It solves more then just the gnome apps not showing their icons. So when I install my current build from the lfs partition to the root, everything is working great from the start.

Keith Hedger · 06-19-2015, 01:52 PM

Your welcome!