i hate these fugly things!!!

**fuscia** · January 10th, 2007

see those ugly little file icons (circled, in the attached pic)? that's a shot of thunar and i'm using it in openbox. before i dumped gnome and xfce, i had pretty little icons in thunar and i would like to have pretty little icons in thunar, once again. how can i do it without installing a whole bunch o'junk?

**d3v1ant_0n3** · January 10th, 2007

Can't you just change the icon theme?

**fuscia** · January 10th, 2007

Originally Posted by d3v1ant_0n3

Can't you just change the icon theme?

i don't have gnome and xfce anymore.

**tbroderick** · January 10th, 2007

Just install an icon theme like Tango and put this line in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0

Code:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"

Change the theme name to whatever one you install.

**picpak** · January 10th, 2007

Alternatively you could put

Code:

gnome-settings-daemon &

into your .xsession file (provided it's still installed).

Here's my .gtkrc-2.0 file for future reference:

Code:

gtk-menu-popup-delay = 100
gtk-menu-bar-popdown-delay = 100
include "/usr/share/themes/Carbonit/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "nuoveXT-1.6"
gtk-font-name = "Sans 9"
gtk-toolbar-style = GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS

**IYY** · January 10th, 2007

I usually just use gnome-settings-daemon, but there is a program called gtk-theme-switch which can be used as well.

**G Morgan** · January 10th, 2007

Easiest way to get rid

#(snipped, just for safety's sake)

Not very helpful I know.

//Anyone who doesn't know that command do not try it under any circumstance.//

**Lord Illidan** · January 10th, 2007

Originally Posted by G Morgan

Easiest way to get rid

#(snipped, just to be safe)

Not very helpful I know.

//Anyone who doesn't know that command do not try it under any circumstance.//

as it basically erases your entire root directory...

**fuscia** · January 11th, 2007

Originally Posted by tbroderick

Just install an icon theme like Tango and put this line in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0

Code:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"

Change the theme name to whatever one you install.

awesome! this is the kind of solution i dreamt about. you are a true openbox hero.

no more rheindeer games for G Morgan, btw.

**K.Mandla** · January 11th, 2007

Originally Posted by fuscia

see those ugly little file icons (circled, in the attached pic)? that's a shot of thunar and i'm using it in openbox. before i dumped gnome and xfce, i had pretty little icons in thunar and i would like to have pretty little icons in thunar, once again. how can i do it without installing a whole bunch o'junk?

I usually added tango-icon-theme-common and tango-icon-theme-extras to get rid of those awful things. Edit: Which is, I think, what you just did.