[openbox] Icons

Turku Ting turkuting at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 16:46:02 EST 2013


did you reconfigure?
for the sake of testing, try different icon themes and see if it changes anything.
but really this is an old and much discussed issue, you should search various forums for it.
i mean not particularly with sublime text.
are you using some kind of lxde setup? try lxde forums.


On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:34:51 -0500
Jamie Macdonald <jamie.alban at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I copied the images to the theme I'm using
> "elementary" (so to "/usr/share/icons/{16,32,48,128}/apps/sublime_text.png")
> 
> But still no icons!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Turku Ting <turkuting at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > try creating actual image files or symlinks in your current icon theme's
> > folder, maybe under scalable/apps, called sublime_text.png or
> > sublime_text.svg.
> > in other words, copy the files over.
> > what your current icon theme is? most probably it says so in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 12:58:29 -0500
> > Jamie Macdonald <jamie.alban at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I have Sublime Text installed, and its icons are *symlinked* into
> > > `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/{16x16,32x32,48x48,128x128,256,256}/apps` as
> > > "sublime_text.png"
> > >
> > > and my `/usr/share/applications/sublime-text.desktop`, looks like:
> > >
> > > ```
> > > [Desktop Entry]
> > > Name=Sublime Text
> > > Comment=sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose
> > > Type=Application
> > > Icon=sublime_text
> > > Exec=subl %F
> > > Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
> > > Terminal=false
> > > MimeType=text/plain;
> > >
> > > ```
> > >
> > > And using Docky as my dock, Docky finds these icons, but openbox does not
> > > find them for either the top window decorator or the window switcher.
> > > (instead the icon is the stock openbox window icon) I don't have any
> > > problem with my other applications.
> > >
> > > They are the only icons in the hicolor folder to be symlinked in, it
> > looks
> > > like. I have tried replacing the symlinks with the actual files, and
> > > restarting Openbox, but that's no good either.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any pointers?
> >
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