2y ago

Tint2 taskbar icons

Hi, does anyone know how to make the tint2 taskbar follow the icon theme set in xfce? I'm on mx linux using the Zafiro-Nord-Black icon theme and set it to inherit from Zafiro-Icons-Dark, Numix-Circle, and Papirus-Dark.

If I launch from the terminal and open the tint2 setting I can see line upon line of

    
tint2: Could not find icon '', using default.

This is driving me mad.

5 comments

In the tint2 docs do a ctrl-f for 'icon' --- does any of that look like it could be of any use to you? I am not sure I understand the issue but maybe this:
launcher_icon_theme = name_of_theme : (Optional) Uses the specified icon theme to display shortcut icons. Note that tint2 will detect and use the icon theme of your desktop if you have an XSETTINGS manager running (which you probably do), unless launcher_icon_theme_override = 1.
launcher_icon_theme_override = boolean (0 or 1) : Whether launcher_icon_theme overrides the value obtained from the XSETTINGS manager. (since 0.12)
If not try searching for 'icon' in the rest of the repo, issues etc.
- Unfortunately, setting the launcher icon theme seems to have no effect on the taskbar icons. Thank you though.
  
  Here is some troubleshooting ideas I have. Do any of them make any difference whatsoever
  Using a very generic, well supported icon theme with no customization. Is the problem that tint2 isn't picking up any icon theme or it just isn't picking up these icons? If not picking up any icons, then what icons is it using?
  create a fresh user on system with all default settings and see if anything is different? And if you have done system level customizations you could even try a fresh system liveboot/VM but that is a lot of work to be fair.
  change your xfce4-appearance and xfwm-settings themes
  Do you install icon themes for the user or the system? Try the other way does it make a difference?
  I am using latest stable xfce4 (1.18 I think) with tint2 for task list and xfce4-panel for workspace switcher miniature view. From what I've noticed, the icons in both are always the same between the two of them. Tbh in general I have found changing icon themes very annoying and inconsistent across the system with some applications and tray items being resistant. Like firefox developer I find is impervious to icon themes. Do you have the issue with all applications including very well-supported ones like thunar or mousepad?
  There is a command called gtk-update-icon-cache/gtk4-update-icon-cache but I don't know if it would help.