#1 2016-04-24 11:22:35

silince

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Icons in Thunar

Hallo,

I can't seem to get Thunar to adopt the icon theme I'm using for the rest of the system.  Is this some GTK2/3 type thing that I'm missing?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Icons in Thunar

Please post the output of:

cat ~/{.gtkrc-2.0{,.mine},.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini}

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Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

hhh

Gaucho

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Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Icons in Thunar

Known bug due to thunar-deamon running. Either have a thunar window open when you apply the icon theme or else restart the daemon (logout, for example).

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I don't care what you do at home. Would you care to explain?

silince

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Re: Icons in Thunar

# DO NOT EDIT! This file will be overwritten by LXAppearance.
# Any customization should be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine instead.

include "/home/skillz/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"
gtk-theme-name="Bunsen"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Numix-Circle"
gtk-font-name="Colaborate-Thin 10"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="DMZ-White"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintslight"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"
# uncomment the code below to enable steppers in gtk2 apps
# (see ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css for gtk3)

#style "scrollbar-steppers"
#{
#    GtkRange::stepper-size      = 13
#    GtkScrollbar::stepper-size  = 13
#    GtkScrollbar::has-backward-stepper      = 1
#    GtkScrollbar::has-forward-stepper       = 1
#}

#class "GtkScrollbar" style "scrollbar-steppers"

# end of stepper code
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Bunsen
gtk-icon-theme-name=Numix-Circle
gtk-font-name=Colaborate-Thin 10
gtk-cursor-theme-name=DMZ-White
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
gtk-xft-rgba=rgb

silince

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Registered: 2015-10-14

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Re: Icons in Thunar

Known bug due to thunar-deamon running. Either have a thunar window open when you apply the icon theme or else restart the daemon (logout, for example).

Yeah doesn't work for the numix theme alas.

johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

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Re: Icons in Thunar

I don't know if you'd call it a "bug". It seems fair enough that a running daemon can't change its config on the fly.

You don't have to logout though.
Hit Ctrl+F2 and  enter 'killall thunar'.
Then W+F to get a new Thunar window.
This has always worked for me in the past.

The daemon will no longer be running, but to be honest I've not noticed much difference in the time to open a Thunar window.
Anyway it will be restarted after a logout.

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xaos52

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Re: Icons in Thunar

thunar -q

probably is a cleaner way to stop all thunar processes.

ohnonot

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Re: Icons in Thunar

Known bug due to thunar-deamon running. Either have a thunar window open when you apply the icon theme or else restart the daemon (logout, for example).

Yeah doesn't work for the numix theme alas.

and neither does "killall thunar"?

if so, then you have to tell us how you installed the icon theme, where from (a link), where to, what its permissions are.

johnraff

nullglob

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Re: Icons in Thunar

thunar -q

probably is a cleaner way to stop all thunar processes.

Thanks! I hadn't noticed thunar had that option.

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silince

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Registered: 2015-10-14

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Re: Icons in Thunar

I think the issue is that one needs the Numix base package properly installed in order for it to work. On other distros I grabbed everything via apt/ppa but I didn't want to 'break Debian' so I got just the circle icons from git. The point is somewhat moot now as I'm using Paper instead!

But many thanks for the replies.