Missing icons in Fluxbox

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I’m using antiX 17.2, 32-bit and have a question about missing icons in the menu when using Spacefm/Fluxbox. On a few menu items there is no icon for the app. However, they’re all there when using Rox/Icewm.

What specifically do I edit to make them all appear in the menu, and can I download and use other GTK icon sets to use within Fluxbox on antiX?

Thanks,
Robert

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For each “app” whose package installs only an SVG “icon file” (not .xpm or .png or .gif) or installs none,
you wind up with no icon displayed for it in the antiX fluxbox menu (nor in the taskbar).

mini-rant:
FWIW, the situation will not improve. The avante garde who have overrun debian are pushing use of “AppStream”, and the Debian AppStream docs stipulate Please do not ship icons in the .xpm format [..] Applications with only .xpm icons will not be included in the metadata. Separately, “designers” are steering the herd toward use of “scalable” graphics files, aka SVG. A dot.svg file is not an imagefile, it is a container file (analagous to .ogg container files used to supply various flavors of encoded audio files). The content of an SVG can (and instances have been found in the wild) contain embedded malicious payloads. I’m content with lack of svg support by the fluxbox ~~ that was one of the reasons I choose to use and champion this window manager.

What specifically do I edit to make them all appear in the menu

You can browse to /user/share/applications, inspect the .desktop file for each affected application, determine which iconfile is specified.
If an svg is specified,
(after installing the “imagemagick” package) use the convert command to generate an xpm or png version of the icon imagefile.
………… convert /path/to/appname.svg /path/to/appname.png
or
using mirage (or rox-filer, or other viewer)
browse /user/share/icons /usr/share/pixmaps and find a desirable xpm or png, then edit the app’s .desktop file and edit the Icon= line
or
choose any ol’ appealing png, gif, and feed it to the imagemagick-provided “convert” command to generate a matching xpm

Separate from the above, you can use the antiX “menu-manager” utility to edit existing .desktop files and choose different icon for a given .desktop file.

can i download and use other GTK icon sets to use within Fluxbox on antiX?

debian packages containing icon sets: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=icons&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all

thousands of downloadable icon sets here: https://www.opendesktop.org/browse/cat/386/

“Over 10000 unique icons in svg, png, xpm, ico, and icns formats.”
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openiconlibrary/

“gz archivefiles containing various icons, bitmaps, and pixmaps”
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/icons/!INDEX.html

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In posting the above, I’m at risk of being (only) halfway correct.
The fluxbox package does provide a generate-menu utility which (if imlib2 library and imagemagick are installed) can digest .xpm .png .gif iconfiles.
antiX does not preinstall imagemagick, and the fluxbox-provided menu utility (same goes for 3rd party “fbmenu” found on the net utility) is incompatible with the antiX across-all-WMs “Update Menus” mechanism.

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