Xfce 4.4 - Icon problem

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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roger wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:40, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> On 4/18/2006 4:33 PM, roger wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I just downloaded the fat tarball of Xfce 4.4 beta 1 and compiled it from
>>> source (I didn't use any installer).
>>> Basically I compiled everything except exo, mousepad, Terminal and Thunar
>>> (I plan to see for those later on); then I installed gtk-xfce-engine in
>>> /usr and the rest in /usr/local, on top of the previous Xfce 4.2 (I
>>> didn't remove anything prior to this new installation).
>>>
>>> Xfce 4.4 seems to start properly, the panel is there, as well as
>>> xfdesktop and xfwm. However, I have problems with icons - see
>>> http://rmlx.dyndns.org/misc/Screenshot.png
>>>
>>> I created a few panel launchers. They work fine but no icons are
>>> displayed. Besides, the Setting Manager only displays a couple of icons!?
>>> Changing (general) Themes using the User Interface Preferences GUI seems
>>> to work flawlessly. However, nothing happens whatever Icon Theme I
>>> choose.
>>>
>>> Any pointer would be appreciated.
>>> I'm running Mandriva 2006 on 32-bit x86.
>> Sounds like a gtk icon cache problem.  Benny, did you set up xfce4-panel
>>  and the MCS manager and plugins to run gtk-update-icon-cache after
>> installing?  /me is too lazy to look.
>>
>> 	-b
> Thanks for the response Brian.
> However I'm not sure that's a cache-related problem (but I'm not a 
> specialist). Actually when 
> compiling/installing, /usr/local/share/icons/Rodent/icon-theme.cache does get 
> updated.
> Anyway, even after having played with gtk-update-icon-cache from the command 
> line, removed those cache files, recompiled and re-installed several times, 
> still the problem is there. It just seems that the 
> directory /usr/local/share/icons/ is not "seen" !? Any idea on what's wrong 
> on my system?

Some icons get installed to hicolor; did you try:

gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor

as well?

	-brian

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