Gnome 40 on an Odroid N2+ installed on a 128 GB USB 3 Thumb Drive, with kernel 5.11.2-zen-1-ODROID with Wayland graphics
Pudge
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Serious chops! 
Is it worth it?
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@jgmdev @tobetter and @jonathon are the ones with the serious chops. I just took the hard work they had done and utilized it.
Now that it is working, the next step is to install on a Samsung 500GB T5 or T7 USB 3 external RAM.
For me it is worth it. Just 3 Watts at idle, and between 5 and 6 Watts while modestly loaded. All that for under $100, plus External Storage. It is more than adequate for my daily routine. E-mail (Evolution), web browsing, streaming audio and video, gimp, Libreoffice. For the apps that are heavy on CPU and RAM usage, I have my Ryzen 7 2700 with 32 GB of RAM sitting in the dugout.
Pudge
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I am very glad to watch this thread how ODROID-N2 is growing up, I am so sorry myself is not the user of this OS. I am completely tied to Debian/Ubuntu for work and personal, busy to preparing next update with Linux kernel 5.12. 
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chances are you will find everything you need in community/aur repos in Arch. i even used debtap (installs deb packages on arch) on one occasion with success.
i need to get my one up and running again⌠
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Could you tell me which icon theme is that, please? It looks nice.
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Hello, mate.
@xircon
Thank you for answering.
I have just downloaded it. Itâs nice.
Iâm using the Ultimate Edition Dark Glass as the icons-theme and the Kripton for the gnome-shell/applications-theme, but I loved the N.I.B for the Dash Icons theme.
I wonder if it is possible to switch only the dash icons. Is it possible, @xircon?
From this theme:
To this one:
Or, at least, only some icons like the browsers icons. Is it possible, mate?
Thanks!
No, donât think you can, but hopefully someone knows better.
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I donât know of an easy way - but brute-force substitution is always an option⌠It can be a big job to find the right place to make the change though! Not to mention your âfixesâ disappear with every update unless you take steps (backups of the changes, or script to make them again) to mitigate the problem.
Thanks, @freebird54 for your excellent explanationâŚ
âŚbut no 
I donât wanna have too much work because an icon. I was thinking on something like: right-click > properties > change image > et voilĂ , image changed, capisci, mate?
Even so, thank you very much!
I suppose it would be possible to create such a utility (and it may exist out there somewhere) - but I have insufficient knowledge to write it myself - not to mention insufficient motivation! What I have done with a few icons I canât happily live with is to modify the /usr/share/applications/appname.desktop to pull the icon image from elsewhere as desired - mainly for appearance in the dock I use. This avoids the whole âmodify the icon setâ thing entirely, and provides most of the advantages. I keep copies of the .desktop files, and recopy them into /usr/share/applications when updates happen.
One way around it, I supposeâŚ
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I found a way, but it is not working 100%, unfortunately.
I found an application called appeditor on Software Center. However, as I said, there are two bugs (at least I think they are bugs ;).
First one: I gotta open it thru the Software Center to work flawlessly.
Second problem: I canât find all applications that I want.
I changed 2 icons until now: the Tweaks and the Files as you can see:
The first and second icons counting from the Nvidia icon (from right to left 
belong to another icon-package, the N.I.B package that @xircon indicated it to me. But I canât find neither Firefox nor Chromium icons.
Update: I canât find neither Firefox nor Chromium in the Appeditor.
~/.local/share/icons/N.I.B._Icon_Theme/apps/scalable
It might work if you manually edit the apps .desktop file in /usr/share/applications:
# Change:
Icon=google-chrome
# To
Icon=~/.local/share/icons/N.I.B._Icon_Theme/apps/scalable/google-chrome.svg
^ Might need full path? /home/<your_user>/.....
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After all, you knew how to do, my boy 
I followed your instructions step by step et voilĂ . Everything is running as I want.
Great job, mate! Thank you very much. Sincere thanks for your help.
My old befuddled brain 
sometimes worksâŚ
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You shouldnât modify the files in /usr/share/applications. Those files will get overwritten every time the associated package updates.
Instead, copy the file to ~/.local/share/applications and make the changes there.
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If you copy the file from /usr/share/applications/x.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/x.desktop, pacman wonât track it so it wonât get overriden. Alternatively, you could write a pacman hook.