Touchpad, theme and icon questions

Mx. Alba · 2024-02-21 00:57:08

Hi folks!

I just installed Bunsenlabs Boron on a 12 year old laptop I had lying around (don't worry, it has quadrupled RAM and the original 5200rpm spinning rust was upgraded to an SSD) and it's zooming along just fine, but I have a few noob questions that someone might be able to answer for me.

1) How do I reverse the scrolling direction of the laptop's touchpad?

2) I've installed one application from snap; how do I get it added to the applications menu?

3) How do I get the GTK (and Snap GTK) theme to match the nice Boron-Aqua style?

4) How do I change it so right-clicking on an icon in the taskbar brings up the window menu (like right-clicking on the window's title bar) instead of closing the application? I've unintentionally closed quite a few applications already.

Thanks in advance! Apart from these niggles, Boron looks very sleek and snappy!

Last edited by hhh (2024-02-22 14:38:51)

johnraff · 2024-02-21 02:06:28

Hi Mx. Alba, welcome to the Lab!

Maybe others can help too, but:

1) Look at the synaptics settings section in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart. Also, it might be a BIOS setting in the machine.

2) You have to add new entries to the menu by hand. See: Menu > User Settings > jgmenu > Edit Menu Content and check out the help items too.

3) The GTK theme should already be set to Boron-aqua. See: Menu > User Settings > Appearance
Sorry, but I don't know about snap.

4) Edit the tint2 config file which you are using: Menu > User Settings > Tint2 > Edit Tint2s
Around line 192:

mouse_right = close

Change 'close' to something else. See: https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/mas … ar-buttons or Menu > Help & Resources > Tint2
Unfortunately I don't see any option to open the window menu.

Robi · 2024-02-21 09:43:16

@Mx. Alba wrote:

1) How do I reverse the scrolling direction of the laptop's touchpad?

In ~/.config/bunsen/autostart I added the last VertScrollDelta option.

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=1 VertTwoFingerScroll=1 TapButton1=1 VertScrollDelta=-100 2>/dev/null

This worked for me.

Last edited by Robi (2024-02-21 09:48:55)

Mx. Alba · 2024-02-21 12:18:05

Awesome, thank you both for your answers!

Touchpad scrolling successfully reversed, wayward app added to menu (and while I was there, I tweaked a lot of other things in there), and right-click on icon in panel changed to open the main jgmenu (and middle click mapped to close so the option is still available but without risking accidentally closing an app). I haven't found how to call up the app's own title bar context menu when right-clicking on the icon but that's just a nice-to-have at this point.

That misbehaving app that didn't pick up on the GTK theme was replaced by another (better) snap app that does the same thing but doesn't have that bug.

Now there's just one additional thing... How do I change the actual icon an application uses for itself? For example, I like Geany but I hate its garing yellow and red icon. And I love Thunderbird and its default icon but somehow Bunsen gives me a strange red envelope kinda icon instead of the Thunderbird icon...

hhh · 2024-02-21 16:21:03

Snaps use there own themes. You might get a decent match by installing gtk-common-themes...

https://snapcraft.io/install/gtk-common-themes/debian

Tracing down the icon for a specific app can be a royal pain. Start by switching to a different icon theme and see if that changes the icon before going hunting.

Usually it's defined by the icon theme, so something like /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48/apps, but a theme like Numix uses a lot of symlinking and it can get really frustrating to figure out what's going on.

Once in a while the icon is in a common theme, like in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

Once in while an icon is hardcoded into the program itself and you can't change it at all.

Usually the icon for the app which appears in menus is defined in its desktop file. You can try opening the *.desktop file for the app in /usr/share/applications and see what's defined in the 'Icon=' line. Occasionally just changing that works (copy the file to ~/.local/share/applications and change it there).

If you post what icon theme you're using, I'll take a look at Geany and T-bird when I can.

Mx. Alba · 2024-02-21 16:50:25

hhh wrote:

Snaps use there own themes. You might get a decent match by installing gtk-common-themes...
Tracing down the icon for a specific app can be a royal pain. Start by switching to a different icon theme and see if that changes the icon before going hunting.
Usually it's defined by the icon theme, so something like /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48/apps, but a theme like Numix uses a lot of symlinking and it can get really frustrating to figure out what's going on.
Once in a while the icon is in a common theme, like in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
Once in while an icon is hardcoded into the program itself and you can't change it at all.
Usually the icon for the app which appears in menus is defined in its desktop file. You can try opening the *.desktop file for the app in /usr/share/applications and see what's defined in the 'Icon=' line. Occasionally just changing that works (copy the file to ~/.local/share/applications and change it there).
If you post what icon theme you're using, I'll take a look at Geany and T-bird when I can.

I'm using the default Boron Aqua theme. You can see the eyesores in this screenshot.

hhh · 2024-02-22 14:33:38

@Mx. Alba, so this is what I would do using Thunar file manager for Geany...

Open the file manager and navigate to /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48/apps. In a bank space, right click and choose "Open as root" so you have two file managers open, user and root.

In the user folder, find an icon you like (gedit.svg, for example), right click it and choose Send To>Desktop (Create Link). Navigate to Home and rename the shortcut to geany.svg

Drag & drop the new shortcut to the root folder and choose "Replace" at the prompt. Close geany if it's running to see the new icon.

If you don't want to wipe out the original icon, just rename it to something like geany.svg.bak before overwriting it. Note that if Numix icons gets an update, your new shortcut will be overwritten, so maybe save the shortcut that's still in your home folder somewhere, and note the path /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48/apps

For Thunderbird, maybe use the icon internet-mail.svg

Pic or it didn't happen (click for full size image)

I'm editing the thread title to something less generic.

Last edited by hhh (2024-02-22 14:38:02)

Mx. Alba · 2024-02-22 17:02:09

@hhh Thanks, I had actually kinda gone that route and then decided to just switch to another icon pack with icons that I find more visually pleasing than the Numix set. Not saying the default Numix set is bad, just that I personally don't like them, and the cool thing of Linux is that you can just modify it so it is to your liking!

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