icon universal location

[weary dew]

i need to get certain app's icons, but i just don't know where to look, there are so many directories which only contain certain icons but not the others, it gets confusing

[weary dew]

i found this but it can't be the only way fr

it would return the locations of steam.png

but its just so unpractical

[pallid elbow]

you could try to look directly at the .dekstop files in /usr/share/applications and locate the icons from there

not sure if there's a specific command for that tho

most of the icons are stored in /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons

[weary dew]

@weary dew

[weary dew]

I do that

And most of the apps just put the name not the full path

So i didn't really get much far

@pallid elbow

But i chose on another way to go on about things

I use lua to make this, all written in lua, so i can just make it listen to a config file in which you tell the program what to display

this could allow at the same time custom actions, running shell commands, and displaying the icon you want, because it'll have to be specified

[pallid elbow]

sorry for responding late but i was at school, also yeah the only way i see this possible if you use a script in lua and search directly in the folders i mentioned below.

other than that i don't know if there are specific commands to fetch icons in the system

[weary dew]

i made a .config file where you manually put which icon you want there to show up so it should be fine

[pallid elbow]

... solved