Xfce 4.4 - Icon problem

[roger]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:22, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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
>
The hicolor's icon-there.cache also got updated when installing Xfce. 
Additional manual gtk-update-icon-cache's didn't fix anything. However I had 
to use --ignore-theme-index since no index.theme is in this directory (is 
that normal?).
Cheers,
Roger