Changing thunar icon theme

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Hi, I have been having some trouble changing thunar’s icon theme on hyprland. Since thunar is written in gtk I changed my gtk icon theme to Papirus Dark, but it had not affect on thunar. According to fastfetch my gtk icon theme has successfully been set to Papirus Dark. Since I am using hyprland I don’t have the full xfce DE installed and intend to use thunar by it self. I should also mention that I am using stylix, is there maybe a way to set my icon theme through stylix? Here is my full config.

This is where I set my gtk icon theme with home-manger:

{ pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  gtk.enable = true;
  gtk.iconTheme.package = lib.mkForce pkgs.papirus-icon-theme;
  gtk.iconTheme.name = lib.mkForce "Papirus Dark";
}

This is my thunar nix module:

{
  programs.xfconf.enable = true;
  services.gvfs.enable = true;
  services.tumbler.enable = true;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Does it take a new user session to get applied?

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No I dont’t think so. I’ve killed hypland and restarted it and I have rebooted my entire machine without success. I don’t have a display manager installed, I autologin and then launch hyperland from a tty could this be causing an issue? Maybe I misunderstood you? I should also mention I tried Nautilus to see if it’s icons had changed but it was also using the default icons so the issue is not thunar specific.

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Hello all,

I’m also facing icon display issues with Hyprland as my window manager. While fastfetch and rofi show the correct icons, Thunar fails to display them properly. I will take a look at other file manager and see if it is just Thunar having this issue.

Any insights on where to focus our troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated.

5

Noticing that this issue also occurs on Nemo & pcmanfm. It seems to have nothing to do with the filemanager itself.

6

Having the same issue with sway. Any updates?