Select icon set

Select icon set picks which icons the file list draws, and there are companion commands for how big and what color. By default fman shows the ones your operating system supplies; the bundled Material set gives a distinct icon to each language, config file and well-known folder name instead.

Usage

1. Open the command palette with Ctrl+Shift+P.
2. Type select icon set and press Enter.
3. Pick Material, or System to go back. The list shows every installed set, with the active one preselected and marked current.

It applies immediately — both panes redraw, no restart — and is remembered across restarts.

Set icon size works the same way and offers 16, 20, 24, 32 and 48 pixels, plus Theme default. The rows grow with the icons, and the size applies to the OS icons too, so it is useful even on System.

Set icon color recolors the set — Green, Cyan, Blue, Amber, Red, Magenta, White or Grey, plus Theme default. Each icon keeps its own shading, so it is a recolor rather than a silhouette. It has no effect on System: those icons come from the OS, not from fman.

The size follows the font zoom

Alt+Up and Alt+Down scale the icons along with the text, in the same proportion, from whatever size is set here. So at 48, zooming in grows the icons from 48 — and Set icon size keeps showing 48, because the zoom is not saved as a size of its own. Reset font size puts both back.

Commands

Command name	Palette label	Default key
select_icon_set	Select icon set	none
set_icon_size	Set icon size	none
set_icon_color	Set icon color	none
toggle_executable_icons	Toggle real icons for programs and shortcuts	none

The palette also finds Select icon set by file icons, folder icons, icon theme, icon set, material and vscode icons; Set icon size by bigger icons, smaller icons, icon scale, large icons and row height; Set icon color by icon tint, recolor icons, colorize icons, colour icons and icon theme color; and the toggle by exe icon, program icon, shortcut icon and application icon.

{ "keys": ["Ctrl+Alt+I"], "command": "select_icon_set" }

Files that keep their OS icon

• .ico files always show themselves — an icon file is a picture of itself.
• Programs and shortcuts (.exe, .lnk) use the icon set by default. An icon set draws every program alike, while the OS icon says which program it is, so Toggle real icons for programs and shortcuts opts those two extensions back out. It is a toggle: run it again to undo.

Themes

A theme may carry an icon set, a size and a color of its own, the same way Matrix carries an opacity — and Matrix carries all three, which is what makes its icons green.

Your own choice here wins over the theme's and survives a theme switch, until you pick Theme default in Set icon size or Set icon color — or System in Select icon set — to hand the decision back.