can anyone tell me the name and location of the icon that thunar displays in the bottom left column to show a network on Arch linux? It's obviously different than other distros because I am using an icon set that I have made and it seems ok on two other linux distros... IMO Arch is totally the best I have ever seen to this date so having my custom icons would pretty much be a must.

anyone?

In a terminal, try the locate command:

That will narrow your search and show you where icons with the word "network" in their names are located. You can then navigate there with an image viewer and look for the right one.

/usr/share/icons/ but not always, I usually have luck in a GUI file browser just clicking around...

this obviously depends very much on how you installed arch, what sort of DE, what network manager, what icon theme and so on...
i strongly suspect that you are using an arch derivate.
that is ok; this is not the arch forum - but more information we need.

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/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/pixelmaps
--other--

https://www.tineye.com/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ppear_randomly

Don't know if this constitutes all "filenames..." but what desktop?

greets.

I want to thank you all for your replies. I just want to say that I may be a tiny bit clueless about some things as far as life goes... but not THAT much. I am very well aware that icons go in /usr/share/icons and that an appropriate icon named for your program will work in /usr/share/pixmaps.

It appears that my problem is with thunar and a custom icon set I am making. For sure the network icon shows in the tree on the left if I am using a standard icon set like gnome or adwaita which is why I needed to know EXACTLY the name and location of the actual icon so I could further troubleshoot my problem.

thanks.

first of all you could show us which icon you're talking about.

then, you'll really have to search for the name.
but xfce provides a nice tool for that, accessible via
click on the icon selection.
once you find the name (without extension) of that network icon, you can find it in the icon themes' file structure with
that should give you a clue as to what to do with your icon theme.

icon themes are a major pita to create because of all the symlinks. my respect for even tackling a task like that.

thanks for the help man,

I will try those commands later on.

the icon set I'm designing has the "Humanity" apps, the "Dust" folders and some of the "gnome" widget thingys (arrow, home icon etc) it's about finished. there are quite a few custom icons too and so far the set looks great on Ubuntu and Slackware but I want EVERYBODY to be able to use this theme so I am going for cross-platform. wish me luck.

ok this is the icon I am talking about: http://picpaste.com/screenshot-tszVXECD.png

here are the steps I took (if I remember correctly) in building my icon set:

1. copied "Humanity" icons to ~/.icons
2. edited the line in index.theme to reflect a different name for the icon set
3. replaced the "places" folder with the one from the "gnome-dust" icon set
4. replaced all the network icons in all the "places" subfolders with the icons of the same filename from the "gnome" icon set (the only difference there is is the "gnome-dust" icons end in .svg and the "gnome" icons end in .png)
5. once I reach replacing the icons in the "24" or "32" folder (I didn't notice which, but probably "24")... the network icon in the tree on the left disappears (Thunar)

this issue is only on Arch

jamison20000e - I tried the suggestion you posted: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ppear_randomly ...and it doesn't work or I did it wrong.

my only guess it that one of the other folders, "actions, mimes" etc. has a symlink to an icon in the places folder that had the file extension .svg but I can't seem to locate where. or it "is" the bug outlined in your link.

still looking :/

Renaming this thread may help...

plus had an idea that may work, use a GUI to search image files system wide with previews e.g:

hope it helps?

I tinker around with alot of DE's mostly because I have put together a theme and I want it to be cross-desktop.

I happened to notice that the icons work in caja. Just not in thunar. Every other icon is being displayed properly except the default icon for "Network". I am at a loss. :/ Stumped.

Thunar only. Arch only.

I figured it out! the icon I was looking for was actually a symlink to another file in another folder.