• omns
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Topic: Howto: Change the lxpanel menu applet icon

The lxpanel menu applet icon doesn't match my chosen icon scheme at all. If you'd like to change it to something more suitable, follow the steps below:

in a terminal

gedit ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel

In the config file that opens look for an entry like this 

Plugin {
    type = menu
    Config {
        image=/usr/share/lxpanel/images/my-computer.png

       
Change the path of the icon to the one of your choice. In my case it was one that I saved into this same directory, being /usr/share/lxpanel/images/crunchbangmenu.png
Save the config file and close.

Restart the lxpanel

alt-f2, then run the command:

pkill lxpanel && lxpanel

Caveat: You'll notice at the top of this config  that it recommends not editing this file, so follow this guide at your own peril wink

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Re: Howto: Change the lxpanel menu applet icon

Great tip, thanks! I really like lxpanel, but IMHO some of the default icons are just plain ugly. Maybe we should make a CrunchBang specific lxpanel package and redesign the default icons?

P.S. I hope I have not offended anyone with that statement.

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Re: Howto: Change the lxpanel menu applet icon

Ooh, I forgot a picture. The new icon is bottom left.

http://fc31.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/339/3/e/lxpanel_menu_icon_by_omns.png

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Re: Howto: Change the lxpanel menu applet icon

I'm having a problem where my Firefox icon isn't showing up in the bottom left. I haven't done an weird setting changes, so I don't know why it can't find the icon.  See screenshot...

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9901/2008120512285252551024xmd5.th.png

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Re: Howto: Change the lxpanel menu applet icon

marf wrote:

I'm having a problem where my Firefox icon isn't showing up in the bottom left.

This will fix it for you  http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/111/#p111

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