how to restore default system tray icons?

Poohblah · 2013-06-18 22:25:47

Somewhere in the course of things in the last couple of weeks, my system tray icons changed from the nice white icons that come with #! to a random mixture of icons. The volume icon appears to be the same as before, but most of the others have become weird black recessed outlines and the clipboard is now an ugly and colorful drawing. How do I revert to the default system tray icons? I've tried messing with tint2, openbox, and lxappearance, as well as the settings of each individual application which puts an icon into the system tray, but none of them seem to have any control over the system tray and taskbar icons.

I also tried copying /etc/skel/.config to my home dir, then restarting tint2, but that didn't do much, so I suspect the system tray icon setting lies somewhere else.

Last edited by Poohblah (2013-06-18 22:47:06)

pvsage · 2013-06-18 23:08:05

This is corenominal's doing; for some reason, he changed one of the metapackages to require his new crunchbang-icon-theme instead of faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme. hmm If you run `sudo apt-get install faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme` and reboot, you should have your nice white icons back. wink

Poohblah · 2013-06-19 03:53:22

Thank you very much for your assistance, pvsage, however, this did not get me exactly where I needed to go. I did the following:

apt-get install faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme
apt-get purge crunchbang-icon-theme

I tried to restart the X server using

sudo init 3
[...]
sudo init 5

However, this didn't work and I had to do a full reboot (which is an issue for a different thread - it seems like Debian treats runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5 as all being the same? I'm used to 3 being a non-graphical runlevel). To get back to the point, this installed a nice set of icons that was certainly an improvement on what I had, but it is not what my plain-jane #! install came with. Here is a screenshot. As you can see, the icons in the system tray in the top-right and the Iceweasel forward, backward, and refresh buttons are clearly different from stock #!. If I can get the stock icon set back, that would be wonderful. I have a #! live DVD that I could boot from and grab the icons from, if only I knew where they were located in the filesystem or how to obtain a package to re-install them.

Last edited by Poohblah (2013-06-19 03:55:45)

pidsley · 2013-06-19 05:41:12

Poohblah wrote:

it seems like Debian treats runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5 as all being the same?

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia … e_runlevel

pvsage · 2013-06-19 05:44:45

You may need to reset the icon theme to the default (I believe it was Faenza-Dark-CrunchBang) in lxappearance (Settings >> User Interface Settings in the right-click menu) to get your original icons back.

EDIT: By the way, call me lazy, but I usually just reboot, going all the way back to GRUB - that way, I'm sure no daemons that are launched by the autostart script have multiple instances running.

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Poohblah · 2013-06-19 15:24:48

Aha, there we go! Thank you, pvsage!

And thank you pidsley, too. I guess it makes sense that a distro designed to be a personal desktop system such as Debian treats runlevels 2-5 as all being graphical runlevels. Unless you're in a server environment, non-graphical runlevels don't seem to have much use, since personal laptops and desktops generally have monitors plugged in all the time.

beng · 2014-11-18 00:15:15

Hi
ouch, same deal here; I desperately miss my whitey icons!!!!!
I searched the whole net but could not find an answer
what I have in lxappearance / Settings >> User Interface Settings >> Icon Theme tab (Waldorf) are only
crunchbang
crunchbang-dark
elementary Xubuntu dark
gnome
but selecting them / applying them does not change my system tray icons back to the Waldorf default (it does not even change the preview for each one of them!)
@Poohblah: did you get it sorted
else can someone please tell me where i could download the default theme and reinstall it if there is no other solution
thansk a lot
beng

Last edited by beng (2014-11-18 00:18:15)

damo · 2014-11-18 00:30:59

You need to restart the applications in the systray before they use a new icon theme.

The volume icon can also be changed with R-click->Preferences

Why do you need to reinstall the icons? Have you deleted them? They should be in /usr/share/icons

(Asking a poster to respond several years after a post is quite optimistic IMO wink )

Last edited by damo (2014-11-18 00:34:20)

beng · 2014-11-18 23:14:10

Hi @damo
Thanks for your answer.
Well the applications in the system tray are the (default) sound mixer, networking, battery and clipboard (+ added a keyboard swicth gb - fr); it's all of them but the kb swicth I would like to return to their original state, currently they don't look soberly uniformed!
I restarted the whole computer, and therefore the apps did restart too, but this does not change anything to the icons.
The icons are indeed still in /usr/share/icons, but when I want to (re)install them from the lxappearance graphical interface, IconTheme tab, the system expects a "*.tar.gz, *.tar.bz2 (Icon Theme)", not images as such....
Don't know what to do really here, that's why I thought if I reinstalled them, them somehow this would correct what's wrong
Thanks
beng

damo · 2014-11-18 23:50:33

That's not the way lxappearance works. If the icons are in /usr/share/icons or ~/.icons, they will show up in lxappearance; and if you make changes to those directories then you need to restart lxappearance to repopulate the list.

To change an icon theme just select it and click apply - no need to install what you already have. The Waldorf default icon theme is CrunchBang (and CrunchBang-Dark), which inherits from GNOME (and HiColor) for those icons it doesn't supply itself.

To install an icon set you:
(1) D/L them as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive and use "Install" from within lxappearance or...
(2) Use apt-get for those in the repos (ie the default sets in a fresh install) or...
(3) D/L an icon set, or extracted set from an archive, and move them into /usr/share/icons for system-wide access (you can see the directory structure required in there); or create ~/.icons and put them in there for the $USER

I've never used (1) btw

EDIT: If a selection doesn't seem to work then select and Apply a different set first, before reselecting the one you want. (The same thing goes for themes as well btw)

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