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Use user's icons in a bash script

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I am looking for a way to use the icons from the users theme (in gnome) in a bash script.

The solution could be a environment variable or a file where the path to the users icon set is written.

Eg. of use :

notify-send --icon=$MYICONPATH/status/32/info.svg "info"

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answered 2 Years ago lasagnerhead · Accepted Answer

Assuming you are using the GNOME environment, you can get the name of the icon theme with gconftool-2 (Ubuntu versions < 11.04) or gsettings (Ubuntu >= 11.04). Depending on your use case, that might already be enough:

gconf:

ICON_THEME=$(gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme)

MYICONPATH=/usr/share/icons/$ICON_THEME

gsettings:

ICON_THEME=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme)

MYICONPATH=/usr/share/icons/${ICON_THEME:1:-1}