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Yeah! That's BS! It irks me far more than it should!
As you see, the icon on the left is properly themed. It's the right icon! It's the right icon even in the start/application menu.
Then...
I start the app and it doesn't have the right icon!
If you look, the other apps have the right icon. They're all a nice blue color, just as they should be. Not Google Chrome! No! No, that one wants to be all multi-colored and special!
I've tried yelling at it. I've tried searching to see how to change that one specific section - but found nothing. I've looked at the shortcut properties. I got nothing...
The OS is Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. That means the DE is LXDE.
Yeah! That's BS! It irks me far more than it should!
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The OS is Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. That means the DE is LXDE.
Are you using the default lxpanel?
Is that Chrome, not Chromium? Isn't it understandable that a closed-source application from outside the repositories doesn't play ball? Why don't you use Chromium instead?
Even so, some workarounds are possible:
Can you find the icons in the browser's list of installed files? You could try to replace them with sth more suitable - this would need to be repeated after every browser upgrade.
If Chrome searches for icons elsewhere, try to place suitably named icons in e.g. /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons/hicolor...
use a script around xseticon to change the icon after Chrom* has started
If it's just the icon name like above then Chrome searches for it in standard places ondoho wrote about: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/..., /usr/share/pixmaps/.
If it's a path then it's the path to the icon file.
For some reason, the theme was installed but not present in usr/share/themes. This means I have no idea where the theme was actually installed - but simply elevating my permissions with the file manager let me drag and drop it.
No specific info helped - but it all led me to the right place. So, thanks!
It's still not quite right - but it's close enough I think that's because there's a "high-color" theme and a more matte color theme. When I go through the /usr/share/themes folder, it's a damned mess. I *think* I installed some of the themes by copy/pasting the folders and not through the importation process and that's where the troubles (probably) began.
Also, it may have to do with the tornado of attempts that I made prior. I did stuff like hard-code icon paths in .desktop files and the likes. I made a true mess. I should probably preserve /home and reinstall, but it's not yet broken enough to warrant that.
Icon themes go into /usr/share/icons, not /usr/share/themes, so I don't see how that could've helped.
In any case, it would mean that Chrome finds your icon only when it's under /usr/share? I find that unlikely, but then, it being a closed source app that does not come from your distro's repositories, anything is possible.
Did you even apply that blue ACYL (that's what it is, right?) theme session-wide before?
I think it's more likely you "accidentally did the right thing" when editing those .desktop files.
I attribute it to dumb luck and trying everything - and I do mean everything.
And, yeah - I am pretty sure I installed it by the "customize look and feel" or directly with the OpenBox configuration app. Pretty sure...
Also, I drank last night and got bored. So, I now have a fresh install.
This amused me. It's amazing how quick I can put it back together again. I didn't even preserve home - but I did back my [removed] up and can just restore quite a bit of it by dragging and dropping.
I'll get to getting a good theme going and this time I'll take notes to make sure I can repeat getting the icon to work again.
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