XFCE and changing notification area icons

[Elias4444]

I've been at this for a while now, and can't seem to figure out how the icons in the "Notification Area" on the XFCE panel are set. Occasionally a theme can change them, but usually they don't. I'm big into customizing my desktop to the way I like it, and would really like to put some nice monochrome icons in the place of the nm-applet, the battery status indicator, and the mount indicator.

I'm ASSUMING, it's just an icon filename and directory under /usr/share/icons/<WHATEVER>/something/something/xxXxx/something.png but I simply have not been able to find it or any documentation that would steer me towards it.

Any help is appreciated!

[thanatos_incarnate]

It usually means either that whatever icon theme you're using has not provided an icon for this particular programme,
or that (and this one is actually quite common) the programme or plug in uses a custom icon.
Unfortunately, a lot of small Xfce tray plug ins have been notorious for not sticking to generic names like
"clipboard-manager" or whatever the generic icon name for that thing might be, but rather using a custom icon
somewhere else. Mostly it's in

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/usr/share/pixmaps

or the programme's /usr/share directory. How can you know its directory? Well, you can always check the
contents of the programme's package with:

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dpkg -L package_name

In older versions, I had to replace Squeeze's icons like that. Not sure if they've fixed that by now.

EDIT: For a very smooth desktop experience, you could use Xubuntu's icon theme - it's based on Elementary and has a very Mac-like feel to it, but it's
also got one look for all icons and it's open source and freely available from the Ubuntu repos.
I'd just get the source from here and experiment.

[Elias4444]

Thank you!

[i386 ibm T4x]

im haveing the same problem you know this icon??? the one down thar \/ but im trying to make my debian 11 xfce4 32bit look like windows 10 but i dont know where that icon is and its not the one thats yellow thats the settings one i just need the name soooo i can change the icon im useing that 32 bit labtop right now to talk but hope you can find it

[FreewheelinFrank]

im haveing the same problem you know this icon??? the one down thar \/ but im trying to make my debian 11 xfce4 32bit look like windows 10 but i dont know where that icon is and its not the one thats yellow thats the settings one i just need the name soooo i can change the icon im useing that 32 bit labtop right now to talk but hope you can find it

This topic is old. These days you probably need to add a custom entry to the gtk3/css file.

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=66408#p66408

[i386 ibm T4x]

thx for telling me, im makeing a windows 10 full icon pack from the githubrs useing thars, with my bug fixing heres the img of right now.... ok and you see it bottom right on my screen, thats why but im not a coder and thos on the top left i just be silly, umm pls if you find anyway without codeing tell me and il show you a pic of my screen again, bye.

[i386 ibm T4x]

forgot to show you that the windows 10 noteifacation icons look like this

[i386 ibm T4x]

ummm just portend the empty one looks like the one with lines but inverted #ERROR with svg to png

[FreewheelinFrank]

umm pls if you find anyway without codeing tell me and il show you a pic of my screen again, bye.

On my computer the icons are in

/usr/share/icons/Papirus/symbolic/status/
They are notification-symbolic.svg and notification-new-symbolic.svg

if that helps.

[i386 ibm T4x]

ok il try to use that name of your icons idk if debian will like it or it just keeps that bell icon
spoler#1 min after: it did not work do you have Adwaita icon pack the 1st icons of debian 11 or you have a difert OS oreo if you have a good CPU and mem and free space you can make a.... im not grate at spelling lets say a mini computer like if your computer had a baby it uses the adults CPU and mem you know what im talking about right? pls dont use AI its weird with that.

[i386 ibm T4x]

for the best OS iv got debian 11 32bit ya thats right you can use 32bit on 64bit cpu but im 32bit 2.0gibs of ram and ibm thinkpad T42

[i386 ibm T4x]

wait it did work i forgot my icon pack haves status and status@2 i copyd and pasted it in all of thos 2 folders heres my pic il find a way to make our icon pack and put ToZ and you in it i was getting help from ToZ to on xfce forms but you won! thx so much for your time you see on the bottem right, right? it changed!

[FreewheelinFrank]

You're welcome. Glad you got it working. I think the icon is better than the bell to be honest. If you are happy with the answer, please mark the topic as solved.

[i386 ibm T4x]

i did it its now on github link> https://github.com/win10-ToZ-Freewheeli ... full-icons you can unzip it its a 7z file put it in /~ .icons and now you have a win10 icons i forgot about the icons of the wehther il add that edit: i added it soo its ver 6.0 put that in /~ .config/xfce4/weather/icons .

[i386 ibm T4x]

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