Settings Manager

[Jerry3904]

@kobaian In such a case you can just create a simple desktop file in /usr/share/applications--I'm doing that for MX-21 Base in a couple of cases.

[dolphin_oracle]

users can also place any custom desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications

[Jerry3904]

good add

[ceeslans]

@Adrian: custom-tools working perfect now.
Papirus is a very complete and consistent icon-theme, so no hickups anymore, like sometimes happens with incomplete icon themes
(Tela icon-theme sets a symbolic icon only, in case an app-specific icon is not available).

Would it be possible to add an option in 'custom-toolbox.conf' to set a specific icon-theme, so something like:

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icon_theme=Papirus

Then mxfb-settingsmanager could show a consistent set of icons, irrespective of the icon theme set systemwide by the user

[kobaian]

I think that's because when you select a program/script that doesn't have a .desktop file I don't know how to launch it and I launch it in a terminal (some programs might not have GUI) I don't know how to check if the app has GUI or not...

All these apps, except rofi-theme-selector have a .desktop file, but thanks to your and others replies I know now what's the point. The names of .desktop files created during the installation process are not the same as the launching command. So the solution is to create another .desktop file with a proper name.

[pianokeyjoe]

reporting back! Huh?! What do ya know? All icons so far in the settings manager have my theme now! I do not know if it worked or if the fix was installed within updates to MX but seems my look IS consistent outside of XFCE even! Nice guys!!

Did you try the build from the link? I want to understand if my fix worked or it's something else you are reporting...

I tried the build from the link provided, as that is the first time I saw this and thus used it. The icons all seem to be my CDE desktop theme which is very obvious since it is a UNIX grey drab theme used in the CDE desktop. Before, if I logged into any WM that was not XFCE, I would get the default adwaita theme(fallback) and gtk3 theme would be the fallback as well. But I installed your app first, then logged out of my XFCE session,logged into my WM session and all my apps have the CDE/Motif theme universally even for icons in Thunar and so on!! I do not know if it was your app specifically though. Maybe a coincidence? But the uniform theme change was NOT there before sooo... BTW, I am still using XFCE 4.14 as my main desktop so I have not had any other changes but indeed the icons in the XFCE desktop settings panel are now mostly the default icons called by the fallback icon theme even with my custom themes applied. So @AVLinux you are correct! There seems to be some XFCE 4.16 elements at play here cause what you described is what has happened! As for MXFB21? I think at least for me, solution reached..for now lol!

[Adrian]

@Adrian: custom-tools working perfect now.
Papirus is a very complete and consistent icon-theme, so no hickups anymore, like sometimes happens with incomplete icon themes
(Tela icon-theme sets a symbolic icon only, in case an app-specific icon is not available).

Would it be possible to add an option in 'custom-toolbox.conf' to set a specific icon-theme, so something like:

Code: Select all

icon_theme=Papirus

Then mxfb-settingsmanager could show a consistent set of icons, irrespective of the icon theme set systemwide by the user

Can you please try this build and let me know if it works as you like.
https://github.com/MX-Linux/custom-tool ... aster/debs

1. Add Theme=ThemeName in .list file (ThemeName has to match the case of the icon theme, so Oxygen not oxygen for example), if the theme name is not correct things might look worse rather then better.
2. If the icon is not found in theme the first one found with the same name from other theme will be returned so it might not work as you expect.

[ceeslans]

↑ That works a treat...
Setting the 'theme=......." flag solved my issue. And good to see it is set in the .list file, so it can be applied for each box individually
Thanks for your help!