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1 Linux, Cinnamon: cannot create panel icon Posted by JN_Mint /01/05 21:28 In Cinnamon (on Mint 19.3), with 'show tray icon' enabled in Rainlendar, there is no icon in any panel on my system and Cinnamon logs the following error (via its 'looking glass' debugger): error t= t03:21:55z unable to lookup icon for rainlendar-d6-panel Posted by choochooal /01/27 17:01 I have the same issue and have fixed it on my machine. Linux Mint Cinnamon. I have my own icon theme but either way, backup whatever theme you are using. You need to have the icons in the themes APP folders. My theme has volders 8x8 16x16 22x22 24x24 32x32 48x48 128x x256 and each with an app folder. in each of those 8 folders (48x48/apps etc) I created a rainlendard1.png, rainlendar-d2.png etc with the size 48x48 px. I scripted it to make it simple. The Icon now shows on the panel as I want. You'll have to change the scripts for paths etc, so I can't say this will work unless you edit it right. Once you add the icons you need to rebuild the icon index too. In short I create a 256x256 icon as the template, then ran the script and it builds 53 icons with the day/week # 1-53 in them. Then it resizes all 53 icons (in 8 sizes for the theme) and puts them in each?x?/apps folder. It creates 424 icons (a lot) and maybe all of them are not needed. Panel icons of 24, 32 or 48 might be the only ones needed. You can experiment. Good luck. /cms/images/fbfiles/images/calendar.png Posted by choochooal /01/27 17:03 Script did not attach. Won't take.sh I changed to.txt to upload, change it to whatever you want and make executable. /cms/images/fbfiles/files/create_rainlendar.txt Posted by JN_Mint /01/27 19:14 Well, this is good! Thank you for your work. Problems. (1) The script does not clearly distinguish the source folder (where calendar.png) is to be found from the output folder. So I am unsure how to use a calender.png file in a non-root folder (e.g., a subfolder of /usr/share/icons/mint-y/apps/) as the model. (2) What size icon should I use as a model? I have, e.g., /usr/share/icons/mint-y/apps/24.. (3) Need I point Rainlendar towards the generated icons, or do I need rather to use the generated icon theme as my theme? If the latter, I do need to be able to use icons that are not in /home. Rainy, should you not incorporate the script - or something like it, or something like the icons generated by the script - into Rainlendar? Posted by choochooal /01/28 06:33 First off, I found an error in the script. The font should be Arial-Narrow, skip the -Regular. And Arial Narrow is a windows font, or you can find it in any of the font download sites.

2 2nd off I guess you are not fluent in reading script. You create a folder, put the script in the folder with a 256x256 icon called calendar.png. Then run the script. But first, you have to modify the script to put the icon in /usr/share/icons/mint-y/apps/#. change ~/.icons/akiconsb/${b}x${b} to /usr/share/mint-y/apps/${b}/rainlendar-d${ltr}.png. The script will resize the icon to the size needed for each apps folder. Now to compound this whole issue, as much as it worked for me, I'm just not sure why I didn't get this to work the way it's supposed to. My skin has a panel icon set in it. No need to do all this. I just didn't check the right check marks in options->advanced. (see attached image). Once I checked the right boxes, the skin icons showed up in the panel. No need for all this script thing. It bugged me that Rainy would go so far out of the way to make 53 individual custom icons needed in a icon theme in Linux when it's not needed in windows and it's already built into skins. And now I know I was doing it wrong. Anyway, skipping this whole script thing and checking the right boxes in advanced settings works. /cms/images/fbfiles/images/screenshot_from_2019_01_28_06_57_55.png Posted by choochooal /01/28 07:37 Create a folder anywhere. Unzip the contents of the zip into that folder and run the script. You will be prompted for root password to update the Mint-Y icon set. If you want a different icon you'll have to change the calendar.png. /cms/images/fbfiles/files/rainlendar_cons.zip You will have to make the script executable. chmod +x create-rainlendar.sh Posted by JN_Mint /01/28 10:45 choochooal: Thank you. I gave Rainlendar the settings that you indicated and.. there was no panel icon. As to the script: I reworked it somewhat (attached) and it worked. Or rather it worked after I shifted from my current icon theme, namely 'Paper', to one of Mint's inbuild icon themes. Perhaps the problem - the reason I needed a script in the first place, and/or the reason the script (even when modified b me) did not work initially - is the way the Paper icon theme is organised. To wit: the top subfolder of the theme does not include an 'apps' folder, but rather contains various folders corresponding to icon sizes. Perhaps I should file a bug report against Paper. If this is the whole problem, then any Rainlendar bug reports on this issue should be closed. /cms/images/fbfiles/files/makeicons.txt EDIT: I think that my theme - 'Paper' - having the wrong structure was the whole problem. For, I've now tried two inbuild Mint themes, without using the script to generate icons for them, and the Rainlendar icon works! Further EDIT: actually, no - both the inbuild themes I used are based on the same theme, and I had generated icons, using the script, for that theme. So it seems that to get Rainlendar's icon working, one needs: (1) an icon theme that is structured as it should be; (2) to generate icons using a script. So it seems there is a Rainlendar bug here. Posted by JN_Mint /01/28 21:34

3 I tried to post a reply earlier, but it seems not to have appeared. Anyhow: I got the script working, and tarted it up a bit - and I've posted it here - but it (you script or my version of it) does not work on themes that have the folder structure /apps rather than apps/.. Posted by JN_Mint /01/28 22:17 I have revised my script, in order to try to make it cope with themes with the structure /apps (as against the other way around). The revised script is However, it is not working. Nor did it work with the Paper theme, which has a slightly different structure again. Argh! To recap: so far the script works only with the Mint-Y theme. Posted by choochooal /01/29 02:59 You are totally right about theme structures. Some are apps/size and some are size/apps. Mint-Y is size as a single digit and my theme I think copied from Mint-X, or hi-color, not sure, is like 48x48/apps. I took my script I posted earlier and made it work for Mint-Y that is apps/48. Hi-color is 48x48/apps (as is mine). Both variations work for me, I just have to code the script to put the icon in ${b}x${b}/apps or apps/${b}. To add a wrinkle to the whole theme thing, some themes are svg which is harder to do this script with. I don't know what to tell you more than I've got Mint-Y and hi-color to work with this script as well as finally got the built in icons to work just like it does in windows. Odd though that the program has two avenues of getting icons. I'm sure there's some logic to it but for now I've got to play dumb. I'd suggest pointing to one of the built in themes. Or are you? I built my own theme off of a template I found in the docs someplace (and don't ask where, I'll never find it). It was one of the built in themes that made the icon appear that made me realize that I had done something different in my theme, or with my options. Posted by JN_Mint /01/29 09:20 So the script needs to be able to handle themes with these directory formats: 1) size/apps 2) size x size/apps 3) apps/size 4) apps / size x size and that is ignoring SVG. My version of the script already, if perhaps buggily, handles 1 and 3. Do you think you could help me/us handle 2 and 4 too? For there is only so much time I can afford to spend on this. And, yes, I am 'pointing' the script at a system theme. But also: USERS SHOULD NOT THEMSELVES HAVE TO MAKE THE UI OF PAID PROGRAMS WORK. But it looks like no-one is going to..

4 Posted by choochooal /01/29 13:52 Sorry, I somehow got the feeling you were trying to solve a one time personal issue. I too don't have the time (or desire) to script up a one size fits all script. But that aside I can maybe give you a kick start, you'd have to do the testing and tweaking. There is only one line that needs to be altered to fit all 4 type ideas, its the last convert line: convert rainlendar-d${ltr}.png -resize ${b}x${b}... SO a simple if statement might work. You'd have to ask the user for the name of the theme. Now you know where the folders should be. See my small attachment in theory it should be as simple as replacing that last convert line with this entire if statement. I could have done an if/elseif type thing but for me it easier to make 4 separate if statements, it's a sure thing that only one will be true. Good luck. /cms/images/fbfiles/files/if_statement.txt Posted by choochooal /01/29 14:54 Okay, I lied. Curiosity got the best of me. I modified my original script and tested it on my ~/.icons/akiconsb theme and it works. The only thing you should need to change is the path changing ~/.icons to /usr/share/icons The is no error checking in the program but it is error proof all the same since all 4 if statements would be false if you type a wrong theme name like Mint-y not Mint-Y. All 4 if statements would just be false and not work. The only error you'd get was the compile theme index command at the end. Linux would throw up an error that the theme did not exist. Big deal. Good luck. Al /cms/images/fbfiles/files/create_rainlendar-a714e95d aabb54db710a585b9.txt I'm crossing my fingers it works, I did just one test. Posted by JN_Mint /01/29 15:02 Well, my latest version of the script, which does have error checking and all sorts of stuff, and which incorporates Rainy's suggestions.. doesn't work. It's here. choochooal: I'll try your version. Posted by JN_Mint /01/29 15:18 I tried your script. choochoo, having changed the font to one I have and it did not work for Mint-X, even after throwing in a few more icon cache reloading commands and after restarting Cinnamon and restarting Rainlendar and toggling Rainlendar's 'app indicator' icon. And it did not work for the Paper theme either (which a quick glance seems to suggest does use.png).

5 So perhaps the new script only works - as the old one only works - for the Mint-Y themes (or themes structure like those themes). Posted by choochooal /01/29 15:33 Can you post your theme as a zip? Can you also tell me the location of the theme folder? You need sudo in the last 4 if statements in the convert command if posting to /usr/share/icons and I did not do that, also the gtk command at the end. The script I sent, other than the ~/.icons issue works for me in Mint 18.3 fine and I have the "show tray icon" and "use app indicator icon" checked and not "show tray status icon" I'm running 18.3 and 95% of the themes I have are the Mint-X and their variations of color. 2 other themes I have are svg, so I can't do a 100% diagnostic. Also I've notices that my one 'for b in' statement uses image sizes like etc and some themes don't have all the folders I listed, and some have more. SO there becomes another layer of problem with this. Again. I wrote this as a one purpose script and it seems that a bit of editing MUST be done to get it to work for a specific theme. I also noted when I started editing my theme that not all size folders had APPS in them. I had to create a few apps folders like in 256 and 8. I have another script that lets me add icons to anywhere like, places, mimetypes etc., and that showed me quickly that all sizes don't have all types folders and I had to make them just so my script would not error, that or just ignore the error. I opted for the former. Posted by JN_Mint /01/29 20:39 choochooal, Thank you. I ran your whole script as 'su' and it still did not work (and my relevant Rainlendar settings are the same as yours, and I Cinnamon set to use 'indicators). As to themes lacking some size folders: my version of the script creates those folders, and has half-decent error checking and nice-ish prompts. Shame it doesn't work. The themes I have been trying to get working: Mint-Y: works Mint-X: doesn't work Paper: doesn't work. I attach the paper theme as a zip. The path to the theme on my system is: /usr/share/icons/paper Posted by JN_Mint /01/29 20:41 The file is to large for the forum. I've put it here:

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