Solus Mate - Custom menu icon?

jamelre007

Hi all! I recently installed and setup Solus Mate and it's absolutely perfect 0 problems so far it's been great been using it as my main OS for a bit now.. But i am a tiny bit new to mate as a Desktop Environment i wanted to ask if anyone knew how to go about changing the Bottom Left main menu icon for Mate to a custom picture/icon? I already have a picture picked out to go there I've done this before on other DE's but for some reason i couldn't figure out how to do it on mate is it something i have to tweak via dconf-editor? I'm guessing i might have to put a .svg file in some directory to make it "show up" any advice? I'm kinda stuck unfortuately, Thank you! 😃

YuriTheHenrique

jamelre007 If there's no option in preferences, you may want to open dconf and search for "brisk menu", see if you can change it there...
Also I've found this video:

You may want to create a new icon pack for changing every icon you want, including menu, and placing your main icon pack as a fallback, so mate will use your current icon pack, but with your overrides...

jamelre007

YuriTheHenrique This worked wonderfully, Just the only major problem is my custom icon is unfortunately completely grey in color scheme Which is weird because the .SVG file i created displays in full color if i open it up in a image-viewer.. Any advice? The guy doesn't specify this anywhere in the video unfortunately even his umm folder he changes the icons in apparently has full-colored svg files I know SVG files can obviously display in full color or it wouldn't be showing up in my image-viewer right? Thanks again! 😁

YuriTheHenrique

jamelre007 SVG are a bit obscure to me, last time I created an SVG was maybe 6 years ago, and with the help of an old friend from the solus community... these files can be colored depending on the theme you are using, that's how system tray works for example, for a non changeable color, I always use the old and reliable png file, which is static.