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When I change icons on apps, and close them, they come back up with old icons

Asked by Sinkleir

Hello,
I'm having problems with the icons,
first of all AWN doesn't want to go into a .folder to find the correct theme in my home folder,
then when I copied the main icons to another folder and set them manually they change back to the default ones when I load up the program again.
Any ideas?

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Best Mark Lee (malept) said : 		#1

> first of all AWN doesn't want to go into a .folder to find the correct
> theme in my home folder,

The Gtk+ file chooser hides files/folders that start with a period (.) by default. Right-click the file list pane and select "Show Hidden Files".

> then when I copied the main icons to another folder and set them manually they
> change back to the default ones when I load up the program again.

The "custom icon for tasks" feature is currently unstable, and is difficult to fix. It may or may not be fixed for the 0.3 release, which is a complete rewrite of the dock.

A workaround for this bug is to create a launcher via awn-manager and specify which icon you wish to display for the application(s) in question. When you launch the application, the task will sit in the place of the launcher. Note that you need to restart Awn in order to see the launcher changes take effect.

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Sinkleir (sinkleir-whereismydick) said : 		#2

great, thanks :)

will check it out when i wake up in the morning, it's a bit late now for this :)

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Sinkleir (sinkleir-whereismydick) said : 		#3

is there/will there be a feature to tell awn where to load icons from? like if i want to use icons in this specific folder? i'd like it to use the same icons as the system uses right now..

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Mark Lee (malept) said : 		#4

Awn uses the current Gtk+ theme's icons, if available; otherwise, it looks in various places for the icon, including /usr/share/pixmaps.