How can I change mintMenu to have a icon on dark background?

[RytronII]

Hi.

How can I change the mintMenu to have just an icon on a dark background?

I added a dark theme and it now looks like so [image attached]. I changed the icon but the white/grey background remains.

Thanks.

[caribriz]

Try this:
Right-click mintMenu button > Preferences > Theme
Click down arrow next to Theme and change from the default "Desktop theme" to your theme.
Close box.

I had to logout/in because the Update Manager icon and the Network Manager icon changed to a white background,
but after logging out/in, it was same dark background as the rest of the panel.

This worked for me in Mint 13 xfce using Xfce-dusk theme.

Dark mintMenu background.png (6.86 KiB) Viewed 846 times

caribriz

[RytronII]

Try this:
Right-click mintMenu button > Preferences > Theme
Click down arrow next to Theme and change from the default "Desktop theme" to your theme.
Close box.

I had to logout/in because the Update Manager icon and the Network Manager icon changed to a white background,
but after logging out/in, it was same dark background as the rest of the panel.

This worked for me in Mint 13 xfce using Xfce-dusk theme.

Dark mintMenu background.png

caribriz

No joy.

[caribriz]

I just tried it with another dark theme - it didn't work at first as it did for Xfce-dusk.
I had to copy the extracted folder to /usr/share/themes (as root) for it to show up in the mintMenu > Preferences > Theme list.
(Before I just copied the extracted theme folder to /home/username/.themes)

Logged out/in - then it worked.
This was Shiki-Midnight-Brave theme.

caribriz

[RytronII]

I just tried it with another dark theme - it didn't work at first as it did for Xfce-dusk.
I had to copy the extracted folder to /usr/share/themes for it to show up in the mintMenu > Preferences > Theme list.
(Before I just copied the extracted theme folder to /home/username/.themes)

Logged out/in - then it worked.
This was Shiki-Midnight-Brave theme.

caribriz

Could you upload the Shiki-Midnight-Brave theme here in a .7z file?

[caribriz]

Hope this works

Shiki-Midnight-Brave.7z

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caribriz

[RytronII]

Hope this works

Shiki-Midnight-Brave.7z

caribriz

Thank you caribriz.

It shows up in themes no problem. The mintMenu icon remains the same though. I may go back to Mint-x.

[caribriz]

Curious it doesn't work for you.

What happens if you (temporarily) change the mintMenu icon to the same as mine:
Right-click mintMenu > Preferences > Main Button change Button icon to:
/usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/24.png ... then close box and logout/in?

Does the icon's background change to the dark background then?
Edit - just tried it with your icon: /usr/share/xfcemint/visualisation-logo.png

dark background visualisation-logo.png (5.92 KiB) Viewed 835 times

Another idea - a stab in the dark -
In the mintMenu > Preferences > Theme screen .... is "Use custom colors" unchecked?

caribriz

[RytronII]

:?
Curious it doesn't work for you.

What happens if you (temporarily) change the mintMenu icon to the same as mine:
Right-click mintMenu > Preferences > Main Button change Button icon to:
/usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/24.png ... then close box and logout/in?

Does the icon's background change to the dark background then?
Edit - just tried it with your icon: /usr/share/xfcemint/visualisation-logo.png

dark background visualisation-logo.png

Another idea - a stab in the dark -
In the mintMenu > Preferences > Theme screen .... is "Use custom colors" unchecked?

caribriz

This is odd indeed. I tried everything but still no good.

[caribriz]

Sorry it hasn't worked out for you.
I'm out of ideas Hopefully, someone will have another suggestion ... please let us know if you get it sorted out in the end.

caribriz

[RytronII]

Sorry it hasn't worked out for you.
I'm out of ideas Hopefully, someone will have another suggestion ... please let us know if you get it sorted out in the end.

caribriz

I will do. Thanks again for helping me. Bye caribriz.