[TIP] Change peripheral battery icon in XFCE

Tesla

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Today I come to explain how to solve a problem that, although it will not improve the performance of your computer, can be annoying if you are a little maniac with it appearance visual of your favorite distribution. Some time ago I posted a topic on the forum about it, and I found no solution. The problem I speak of exists in certain distributions with XFCE in which, when connecting a peripheral, it appears in the system tray an icon like the one below:

Appears in XFCE when connecting a peripheral

A few days ago, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, I reinstalled Debian on my computer with XFCE and I realized that with the icon theme that comes by default the icon if it showed like the battery of the wireless mouse that I have always connected. Then I asked myself: If with the default icon theme it takes this one well, why in mine (Faenza) do not?

So I searched the forums and inside the system icon folders looking for the blissful icons. Until I found the solution. This consists of adding some icons for the system to use for the peripheral in question.

- Choose some icons that we like. In my case, the same ones that you use Faenza when the battery is discharging, that is:

  • xfpm-battery-020.svg
  • xfpm-battery-040.svg
  • xfpm-battery-060.svg
  • xfpm-battery-080.svg
  • xfpm-battery-100.svg

- Copy them to the folder of our theme icons. In my case within:

[code] ~ / .icons / Faenza / 22 / status / [/ code]

- Rename in group (a very good tool for XFCE) changing the word battery by mouse (Here it can be replaced by keyboard, for example, if what we have is a wireless keyboard)

Mass rename XFCE

And ready! We will go from the image above to something like this:

battery_iconchanged

Anyway, there is a bug in upower, which is in charge of managing the peripherals battery, which prevents the icon from displaying the remaining battery%. Is a bugs reported and what I think has solution. Although I have not been able to apply it because it is not intuitive at all. In LMDE, however, the cinnamon power daemon did show the% (albeit a bit using / dev / random XD) of the mouse battery.

Sources:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8188

http://bug-attachment.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=3981


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  1.   st0rmt4il said
    ago 10 years

    Thanks for the tip: D!

    Regards!

    Reply to St0rmt4il
  2.   geronimo said
    ago 10 years

    Nice tip Nikola ,,,,
    regards

    Reply to geronimo
  3.   Tesla said
    ago 10 years

    Thanks to both! It is not a very relevant tip for the operation of a PC but, personally, it bothered me to see that icon in my inbox XD

    Reply to Tesla
  4.   cat said
    ago 10 years

    That icon was annoying in SolydX, good tip.

    Reply to cat
  5.   jushiro said
    ago 10 years

    Excellent tip!
    Greetings.

    Reply to Jushiro
  6.   Alexander Cobo said
    ago 10 years

    Good tip!
    The fact is that it ever came out, and I 'deleted' it with a right button and 'not show' or something similar.
    Could you tell me how to make it show again?
    Thank you very much!

    Reply to Alejandro Cobo
  7.   Alexander Cobo said
    ago 10 years

    It doesn't work for me 🙁
    And the fact is that the keyboard power icon only appears with the Logitech K400, with the Genius SlimStar M8000 not ...
    Please help!

    Reply to Alejandro Cobo
    1.    Tesla said
      ago 10 years

      Like XFCE only has support to show the battery or something like that.

      If what you want is to apply this tip to the battery icon on the keyboard, I suppose you will have to look for the corresponding icons. Instead of xfpm-mouse-X.png it will be something like xfpm-keyboard-X.png (where X takes values ​​from 20 to 20 from 0 to 100).

      Now I'm on Xubuntu and the developer team changes the icon as standard. See if someone can be more useful.

      A greeting!

      Reply to Tesla
      1.    Alexander Cobo said
        ago 10 years

        The keyboard battery icon only appears with one of the wireless keyboards, not with the other ...
        And when it comes out and I try to change it, following the instructions in the tip, it doesn't work for me ...

        Reply to Alejandro Cobo