[SOLVED] Fan icons?

ghorvath · 2016-04-26 07:14:29

My Samsung Series 9 laptop has a button for "silent mode", which turns off all fan activity and reduces cpu power, as well. This is extremely useful when on battery mode, and also sometimes one just wants to have a silent environment. :-)

Anyway, I would like to add a notify-send message when the user activates or deactivates this feature, and I would like to use some nice icon of a fan of it. Preferably, some kind of shaded out or empty fan when silent mode is turned on and a black or complete fan when silent mode is turned off. Does anyone have any nice fans like that? I grep-ed for "fan" in /usr/share/icons, but it did not reveal any hits.

Alternatively, if there are any other suggestions for icons for this feature, I would be happy to use them, as well.

Thanks.

Last edited by ghorvath (2016-05-05 09:24:40)

ohnonot · 2016-04-26 17:20:05

you can have a look yourself.
open a command line and type

exo-desktop-item-edit dummy.desktop

then press the "No Icon" button.
this will give you a nice dialog where you can see all icons with their generic names, not only of the current icon theme.

let's hope notify-send supports these generic icon names.

but even if not, based on your findings you can use

find /usr/share/icons -name '*yourfindings*'

(and not grep)

ghorvath · 2016-04-26 18:58:05

ohnonot wrote:

you can have a look yourself.
open a command line and type
exo-desktop-item-edit dummy.desktop
then press the "No Icon" button.
this will give you a nice dialog where you can see all icons with their generic names, not only of the current icon theme.
let's hope notify-send supports these generic icon names.
but even if not, based on your findings you can use
find /usr/share/icons -name '*yourfindings*'
(and not grep)

Thanks for the suggestions. I must have been really tired when I wrote grep, of course I meant find. :-)

exo-desktop-item-edit did not reveal too many nice icons, and not all of what can be found in /usr/share/icons. I will keep digging.

ohnonot · 2016-04-27 05:07:36

^ change icon theme and repeat the previous trick.

or, how about one of these?

btw, /usr/share/pixmaps also has icons.

ps:
of course i fell for the obvious misunderstanding when i first saw your thread

ghorvath · 2016-04-30 11:53:07

I have chosen for now the fan icon style 2 fans from legacy icons of http://icons.mysitemyway.com
However, I really would like to have two icons, almost entirely the same except that one of them looks like it is currently running, and the other one looks as it is stopped. I did not manage to find two such lookalike icons.

Anyway, thanks for all the help.

damo · 2016-04-30 12:15:58

ghorvath wrote:

I have chosen for now the fan icon style 2 fans from legacy icons of http://icons.mysitemyway.com
However, I really would like to have two icons, almost entirely the same except that one of them looks like it is currently running, and the other one looks as it is stopped. I did not manage to find two such lookalike icons.
Anyway, thanks for all the help.

Open the one you like in GIMP, and edit it, then export to a different icon.

ghorvath · 2016-05-05 09:24:24

Thanks for the advice, now I have two really nice icons that toggle in an excellent way when I activate/deactivate silent mode.

#1 2016-04-26 07:14:29

[SOLVED] Fan icons?

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