Xfce 4.4 - Icon problem

[Benjamin Winkel]

I also got it work when I copied the icons from $prefix/share/icons to 
/usr/icons.
Obviously some path to the icons is not up-to-date after installing XFCE.

Benjamin

roger wrote:
> Thanks Erik.
> 
> I had tried strace on xfce-setting-show but couldn't find anything useful.
> Anyway, following your advice, I did another strace, this time on the panel 
> after having killed it (15).
> 
> I looked for Rodent in the output and found out that the program tried to 
> access it from:
> - ~/icons/
> - ~/.local/share/icons/
> - /var/lib/menu-xdg/icons/
> - /usr/share/icons/
> - /var/lib/menu-xdg/pixmaps/
> - /usr/share/pixmaps/
> and that's all.
> So /usr/local/share/icons/ was just ignored! (note: all Xfce modules were 
> installed in /usr/local but gtk-xfce-engine in /usr)
> 
> I made a symlink from /usr/local/share/icons to ~/.local/share/ and restarted 
> Xfce. Then my panel, as well as xfce-setting-show, got their icons back.
> The right-click Desktop Menu now displays many more icons than previously. 
> However most of the KDE's one are still missing as well as some classical 
> ones such as XEyes.
> However, I don't have any icon issue when logged in with either KDE or Gnome.
> 
> Regarding the panel, with my kill/strace test, I've ended up with half of its 
> setup lost. I'm not really sure how the panel is supposed to save its config 
> but I guess that the setup was saved at the very beginning of the slow 
> execution under strace, while not all pluggins were loaded, and that 
> unfortunately I logged out before the "save config" were kick off again. More 
> work on reliability may be needed on that side...
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger
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