XDG icons do not work

[Brottweiler]

At least that is what I think they are called. Basically I am talking about when apps have icons such as utilities-terminal or preferences-desktop-theme. When you specify these as icons in menu they do not show, and the menu entry has no icon. Example:

prog LXAppearance preferences-desktop-theme lxappearance

Same goes for default menu entries that I haven't even added myself, such as folders that do not have the folder icon, like Education and Graphics.

It also seems like the Start Menu icons do not use my icon theme, how come?

[gijsbers]

Do icewm --trace=icon to see what icons it finds where.
Examine IconPath and tell us what is wrong for you.

[gijsbers]

Or Trace="icon" in preferences.

[Brottweiler]

Do icewm --trace=icon to see what icons it finds where.
Examine IconPath and tell us what is wrong for you.

Can't run this because it says A window manager is already running.

Or Trace="icon" in preferences.

Did this, what do I do now? Is there a log file somewhere I should check?

[gijsbers]

icewm has a --replace option. This is explained in the icewm man page.
Or you could start a virtual display with Xephyr and use that.

Did you try ls -ltra ~ to locate a possible log file?

Where are your utilities-terminal and preferences-desktop-theme located?
Can you find those locations in the output of

icewm -p | grep IconPath

If not then what happens if you add them?

[Brottweiler]

Ah, yes. Adding my icon theme into the IconPath solves the issue. Thanks.

[gijsbers]

You could help us improve things if you would explain what you did exactly with details.

[Brottweiler]

I'll add a comment here tomorrow when I'm back at my computer!

But basically, I just added the path to my icon theme to IconPath. /usr/share/icons/Papirus in this case.

But I'll show exactly what I did tomorrow.

[Brottweiler]

#  Icon search path (colon separated)
IconPath="/usr/share/icons/Arc:/usr/share/icons/Papirus:/usr/share/icons/oxygen/base:/usr/share/icons/Adwaita:/usr/share/icons/hicolor:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmaps:/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor:"

So I simply added /usr/share/icons/Arc:/usr/share/icons/Papirus: which is the themes I use. The Arc theme only has icons for folders and some stuff to match my Arc GTK theme, and Papirus has app icons.