LightDM does not use user's icon theme

[tekkenlord]

Hello,

The icons used by lightdm for the reboot, suspend, shutdown, login and wrong-password buttons seem to always be the ones from the default oxygen icon theme, and not from the icon theme currently used by the system. I have tried copying the user's icon theme into /usr/share/icons/, but that did not make any difference.

The strange thing is that when running 'lightdm --test-mode' from within a running KDE session, then the icons used _are_ the ones set by the user's icon theme.

I am using kde 4.9.3 from kubuntu packages. The version of lightdm and lightdm-kde-greeter on my system are 1.4.0 and 0.30 respectively. The version of Kubuntu is 12.10 .

Please let me know if I can give more information or if there is any workaround to try.

Thanks in advance!

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

What is the icon theme used by the system? The users? What if there are multiple users? What if there are no users (not technically supported by lightdm at this point, but may well be in the future through network based login types etc.)? What if the chosen icon theme does not support the icons required?

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

Thanks for your answer. The icon theme name is Reflektions (http://linuxfever.deviantart.com/#/d287xmx) and I am the only user in my system. I am sure the theme supports the icons required as I have created the theme myself ( and as I mentioned the icons show up just fine when using 'lightdm --test-mode').

According to your reply, do I understand correctly that this is the desired functionality, ie always use the default oxygen icon theme?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Yes, the desired functionality is to always use oxygen. Well, unless the lightdm theme chooses to use its own icons, which at that point has nothing to do with lightdm supporting it or not anymore.

What would be within the realm of possibilities is have a configuration to set the icon theme to use. But as lightdm themes can load any icons they want such a setting would be confusing at best when the user happens to use such a theme. At any rate this is an issue that needs to be discussed with upstream and addressed by upstream (if at all) so I'd kindly ask you to forward your request directly to http://bugs.kde.org so that it can be tracked there :)

[tekkenlord (linuxfever)]

Ok, thanks, will do so.