Awesome Horizontal: Change application icon theme

[hamensman]

If I understand correctly, the icon theme your using for the application icons is decay-icons? If so, how can I change it to, say, Papirus?

[Gabriel Guerra]

Im using the bling icon helpers (if i recall correctly), so if you change your system icons using things like lxappearance and such things (please check that it changed the icons theme at the ~/.gtkrc and ~/.config/gtk-3*/settings* files), it should change the icon on AwesomeWM after a WM reload.

[hamensman]

So that means awesome/bling/helpers/icon_theme.lua should pick the icon theme chosen in lxappearance, right? I'm not getting that unfortunately.

I have to do a bad workound by writing a file awesome/gtk-icons.lua and importing that in awesome/rc.lua:

local menubar = require("menubar")
local gears = require("gears")

client.connect_signal("manage", function(c)
    local icon_theme = "Papirus-Dark"
    local icon = gears.surface(string.format("/usr/share/icons/%s/48x48/apps/%s.svg", icon_theme, c.instance))
    c.icon = icon._native
    icon:finish()
end)

pcall(require, "luarocks.loader")

require "awful.autofocus"

require "signal.global"
require "user_likes"
require "autostart"
require "configuration"
require "ui"
require "gtk-icons

Btw, I know zero lua.

[Gabriel Guerra]

well, assuming that this one is the horizontal awesomewm rice, after seeing the code of it, im seeing that im using awful.widget.tasklist, with no support for gtk icons but the default icons pack. so yeah that workarounds works great for now, which actually replaces the icon property of each app letting the tasklist render it successfully