Personal-patch

Personal icon patcher for Linux icon themes. Replaces app icons, folder icons, tray icons, and mimetypes with custom or alternative-theme SVGs across Papirus, Tela-grey-dark, and other themes.

Scripts

Script	Description
app.sh	Patches Papirus app icons (Slack, Telegram, VirtualBox, Chrome, Firefox, Spotify, etc.)
tela-app.sh	Same as app.sh but targets Tela-grey-dark theme
tray.sh	Patches system tray icons for Slack, Telegram, Dropbox, KeePassXC, Tailscale, MEGASync
magic.sh	Replaces Papirus folder/places icons with Qogir equivalents, patches mimetypes
tray-padding.sh	Reduces horizontal padding on GNOME Shell tray icons (Clipboard Indicator, Rectangle)

Tray icon patching (tray.sh)

Patches tray icons across Papirus-Dark, Tela-grey, and Tela-grey-dark themes:

• Slack - Custom Numix-style indicators (normal, unread, highlight) at 16/22/24px
• Telegram - Custom tray icons for both old panel names and new 6.x+ symbolic names (org.telegram.desktop-*-symbolic)
• Dropbox - Converts custom Papirus-based SVGs to PNGs, replaces bundled icons in /opt/dropbox/ and ~/.dropbox-dist/
• KeePassXC - Replaces tray icons with macOS-style design (circle with key/lock)
• Tailscale - Custom systray SVGs via patched tailscale-systray binary (see below)
• MEGASync - Papirus-style tray icons for Tela-grey/Tela-grey-dark

sudo bash tray.sh

Tailscale systray

Custom tailscale-systray build that uses theme-native SVG icons instead of embedded procedurally-generated PNGs. Source modifications in src/tailscale-custom/ and src/systray-custom/.

Icons in src/tailscale-tray/:

• connected.svg - 3x3 dot grid with T-shape active pattern
• disconnected.svg - All dots inactive
• exit-node-online.svg - Connected pattern with arrow overlay
• exit-node-offline.svg - Connected pattern with red X

Tray icon padding (tray-padding.sh)

Reduces the horizontal padding (-natural-hpadding) on GNOME Shell panel buttons for extensions that have oversized tray icons. Patches extension.js directly via Python for safe multi-line insertion.

Targets:

• Clipboard Indicator (clipboard-indicator@tudmotu.com) — system-installed, requires sudo
• Rectangle (rectangle@acristoffers.me) — user-installed

Backups are saved to ~/.gnome-ext-backups/ before patching. Edit the PADDING variable at the top to adjust (default: 6px, GNOME default: 12px).

bash tray-padding.sh    # requires sudo for Clipboard Indicator

Telegram tray icons

Multiple design variants in src/telegram-tray/ (test1-test4, origin, old-papirus, backup):

cd src/telegram-tray/test4
bash apply.sh

Prerequisites

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/sparkyvxcx/Personal-patch.git

For folder/mimetype patching (magic.sh), clone Qogir into themes/:

mkdir themes && cd themes
git clone https://github.com/vinceliuice/Qogir-icon-theme.git

Usage

bash app.sh          # Patch app icons (Papirus)
bash tela-app.sh     # Patch app icons (Tela-grey-dark)
sudo bash tray.sh    # Patch tray icons (all themes)
bash magic.sh        # Patch folders/mimetypes (requires Qogir)

Preview

• OS: Arch Linux
• DE: GNOME
• Themes: Papirus, Tela-grey-dark

Dash to Dock

Nautilus

System tray

Acknowledgments

• Papirus-icon-theme
• Qogir-icon-theme
• Tela-icon-theme