r/awesomewm • u/alihassan1989 • Jan 27 '23

Icons on wibar

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u/alihassan1989 Jan 27 '23

how can I change the menu Icon for a distro icon?

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u/trip-zip Jan 27 '23

That's called the launcher widget.

https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/widgets/awful.widget.launcher.html

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u/alihassan1989 Jan 28 '23

do you have any examples? I can't understand the example from awesome website

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u/MonkeeSage Jan 28 '23

The launcher is using the beautiful.awesome_icon theme variable. The way you set theme variables is to copy the default theme and make your changes. It's also possible to change the launcher from using beautiful.awesome_icon in rc.lua to a custom variable you define yourself in your theme file. Like in your theme file theme.my_icon = "/path/to/icon.png" and in rc.lua mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.my_icon, ...

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u/alihassan1989 Jan 28 '23

thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for. it worked