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Hello! I hope this was the correct terminology to use, but basically I like the icon theme I have, except for the firefox icon. I know how to set custom icons for the toolbar, but not for the icons used in the window labels on the taskbar. [See screenshot if my words are confusing].
I looked in the IceWM documentation and then read that it is rox which handles these icons, and tried to look in the rox documentation at which point I hit a wall when the theme manager in base rox and in antiX was different.
Does anyone here know a way to change those icons and if so where to look and what to edit? I was also wondering if there’s a way to remove the text beside the icon in the taskbar. It tends to be more eye-strainy than useful for me. I looked into that as well browsing forums and in the configuration file, but couldn’t figure out how to get the result I wanted.
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To add a quick launch toolbar icon to the icewm toolbar (it’s the default Window Manager), you can use IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager, available from the menu. That will create a toolbar launcher that uses the default icon set. Like RJP said, you can then manually edit the “toolbar” config file and change Firefox’s icon to the one you want.
And yes, you can remove the name of the windows listed in IceWM’s taskbar. antiX 23 will provide a GUI for that. For now, make sure that the file $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride exists (where $HOME is /home/[your_user_name] ). You can do that in the terminal:
touch $HOME/.icewm/prefoverrideEdit that file… (you can run, in the terminal, the command
geany $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride
…and that it has a line similar to this:
TaskbarButtonWidthDivisor=18Save that config file and restart icewm.
You may have to change the number: higher numbers make the space used by windows, in the taskbar smaller; lower numbers make that space larger.
The end result depends from your resolution and the number of items on the taskbar (quick launcher and the system tray)
Every time you change that value, or any setting in icewm, restart icewm, so the change is visible.P.
- This reply was modified 1 month ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 1 month ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 1 month ago by PPC.
And yes, you can remove the name of the windows listed in IceWM’s taskbar. antiX 23 will provide a GUI for that. For now, make sure that the file $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride exists…
Thank you so much P! That was exactly what I was trying to do.
To add a quick launch toolbar icon to the icewm toolbar (it’s the default Window Manager), you can use IceWM Toolbar Icon Manager, available from the menu. That will create a toolbar launcher that uses the default icon set. Like RJP said, you can then manually edit the “toolbar” config file and change Firefox’s icon to the one you want.
And I think I wasn’t clear enough, my bad. I know how to edit the icons in the toolbar (I configured the shaded firefox icon and a few others on there myself). What I am unclear on is how to override the icon that is used for the windows in the taskbar (AKA the unshaded icon on the right). I’ve tried poking around in the files under icon and replacing the pngs, but to no avail. Not sure if I’m even looking in the right place!
What I am unclear on is how to override the icon that is used for the windows in the taskbar
You can try changing the application’s “Icon=” field in the respective .desktop file but it probably will fails to work. Usually the taskbar icon is “hardcoded” in the binary of the application. This means that I think that the only way you can change it is finding out where the binary for that application is, searching for the folder where it stores the image files it uses, and then replacing the image for the one you want – I like to “mod” or “rice” my desktop as much as the next guy, but I think that is way too much work just to change an application icon…
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