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https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/hardcode-tray
Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/hardcode-tray
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Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/hardcode-tray
- Owner: bilelmoussaoui
- License: other
- Created: 2015-04-08T18:10:04.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-01-01T20:15:33.000Z (12 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-22T05:04:40.125Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: linux, python, theme, tray-icons
- Language: Python
- Size: 7.72 MB
- Stars: 856
- Watchers: 26
- Forks: 61
- Open Issues: 66
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.BSD-3-Clause
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# Hardcode-Tray
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Fixes Hardcoded tray icons in Linux
The script will automatically detect your default theme, the correct icon size, the hard-coded applications, the correct icons for each indicator and fix them. All that with the possibility to revert to the original icons.
## Themes
Here's a list of themes that supports Hardcode-Tray:
- [Numix icon theme](https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme)
- [Papirus icon theme](https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme)
## Requirements
### Running dependencies
- `python3`
- `python3-gi`
- Pick up your favorite conversion tool
- `python3-cairosvg`
- `librsvg`
- `inkscape`
- `imagemagick`
- `svgexport`
If the icons looks blury, you should try installing this package `libappindicator3-1`. See [#567](https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/issues/567) for reference.
### Building dependencies
- `ninja`
- `meson (>= 0.40)`
## Install
### Arch Linux (AUR)
Make sure the `base-devel` group is installed:
```bash
sudo pacman -S base-devel
```
Stable version:
```bash
yaourt -S hardcode-tray
```
Development version:
```bash
yaourt -S hardcode-tray-git
```
### Ubuntu 16.04+ (PPA)
```bash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/hardcode-tray
sudo apt update
sudo apt install hardcode-tray
```
### Debian 10+
```bash
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/SmartFinn:/hardcode-tray/Debian_$(lsb_release -rs)/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hardcode-tray.list"
wget -qO- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:SmartFinn:hardcode-tray/Debian_$(lsb_release -rs)/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hardcode-tray
```
### Fedora 30+ / Fedora Rawhide
```bash
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:SmartFinn:hardcode-tray/Fedora_$(rpm -E %fedora)/home:SmartFinn:hardcode-tray.repo
sudo dnf install hardcode-tray
```
You can see all available packages [here](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3ASmartFinn%3Ahardcode-tray&package=hardcode-tray).
### Manual installation
1- Install dependencies
#### On Ubuntu:
```bash
sudo apt install git build-essential meson libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev python3 python3-gi gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 librsvg2-bin gir1.2-gtk-3.0
```
2- Compile
```bash
git clone https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray
cd Hardcode-Tray
meson builddir --prefix=/usr
sudo ninja -C builddir install
```
3- Open Hardcode-Tray using this command
```bash
sudo -E hardcode-tray
```
4- Enjoy!
## Options
- `--apply` and `--revert`
Hardcode-Tray shows a welcome message by default and asks the user to choose between applying the fix or reverting it. You can hide that using
```bash
hardcode-tray --apply
```
or
```bash
hardcode-tray --revert
```
- `--change-color`
Your favorite theme does not provide icons for all those hardcoded icons? Just use a different theme and change the colors using Hardcode-Tray.
```bash
hardcode-tray --change-color "#FIRSTCOLOR #REPLACE_FIRST_COLOR" "#SECONDCOLOR #REPLACE_SECOND_COLOR"...
```
- `--clear-cache`
Let you clear the backup cache folder
```bash
hardcode-tray --clear-cache
```
- `--conversion-tool`
Hardcode-Tray by default detects if the user has either Inkscape, CairoSVG, RSVGConvert, ImageMagick or SVGExport installed and use one of them to convert SVG icons to PNG. In order to choose the tool to use if one of them is broken in your installation is
```bash
hardcode-tray --conversion-tool {Inkscape, CairoSVG, RSVGConvert, ImageMagick, SVGExport}
```
For now, we support : CairoSVG (python3-cairosvg), Inkscape, rsvgconvert (librsvg), Imagemagick and svgexport(npm library)
Cairo has some issues with converting SVG files that use CSS (see [#245](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/issues/245)).
- `--light-theme` and `--dark-theme`
Some applications provide dark and light tray icons with the possibility to modify them using their UI. In order to use a dark theme for dark icons and a light one for light icons, you can use those two arguments. It only works if you use both of them at the same time.
```bash
hardcode-tray --dark-theme Numix-light --light-theme Numix
```
- `--only`
You can use the `--only` argument to fix/revert only one application; don't use the argument if you want to fix all applications your icon theme supports.
```bash
hardcode-tray --only android-messages-desktop.electron, skypeforlinux
```
In order to get the names needed to fix only specific programs, you can look at the `app_name` key in the JSON files for the program. There you can find the corresponding name for the program you want to fix.
- `--path`
If you installed your app in a non-standard location, you can override the path where the icons are stored using the `--path` argument. Only works in combination with the `--only` argument for a single application.
```bash
hardcode-tray --only dropbox --path /opt/dropbox-bin
```
- `--size`
You can also use `--size {24,22,16}` to force the script to use a different icon size or if the script does not detect your desktop environment.
```bash
hardcode-tray --size 24 --only dropbox
```
- `--theme`
You can fix your hardcoded icons using a different theme than the default one.
```bash
hardcode-tray --theme Numix --only dropbox
```
- `--version`
You can print the version of Hardcode-Tray using
```bash
hardcode-tray --version
```
## Config file
Hardcode-Tray also supports a JSON config file that can be placed under `~/.config`. The file must be named `hardcode-tray.json`. An example of the config file can be found [here](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/blob/master/data/config.json).
The file supports the following options for now.
- `blacklist`: a list of applications that you don't want to be fixed.
- `conversion_tool`: the default tool to be used every time you use the script.
- `icons` : An object, that contains `theme` and `size` for the Gtk icon theme and the icon size to be used.
- `backup_ignore` : A boolean, to configure either you want default icons to be saved on the backup folder or not.
- `scaling_factor` : Widgets scaling factor. Auto detected on GNOME, KDE and Cinnamon.
Passing `--theme` `--conversion-tool` `--size` will overwrite those settings.
### Node-WebKit JS applications
In order to fix those ugly tray icons on NWJS applications, you will need to download the SDK from [here](https://nwjs.io/downloads/). Extract the zip file in your home directory (or place it wherever you want) and add a new key to the config file that points to the NwJS SDK directory.
## Credits
- Modified version of `data_pack.py`, by The Chromium Authors released under a BSD-style license
- Qt applications icons name by [elementaryPlus](https://github.com/mank319/elementaryPlus) team
## Hardcode-Tray wiki
- [Changelog](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/wiki/Changelog)
- [FAQ](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/wiki/FAQ)
- [How to contribute](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/wiki/How-to-contribute)
- [Supported applications](https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray/wiki/Supported-applications)