My Themes Icons won't stay

[Todd and Margo Chester]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Hi All,
> 
>>    I am running XFce 4.4.1 on Cent OS 5 (RHEL 5 clone)
> 
>>    Whenever I log into XFce, my desktop icons and
>> my Thunar icons change back to the "Fall Back" icons
>> shown in this link:
> 
>> http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/faq#why_does_thunar_display_the_fallback_icon_for_all_files_and_folders
> 
>>    If I go to settings, User Interface Settings,
>> choose a different Theme, then change back, I get my
>> icons back.  Any theme, from to, it does not matter.
>> And, the next time I login, they are gone again.
> 
>>    How do I make my icons stay?
> 
> 
> Fedora has the same problem. The icon theme is hard coded in the default
> gtkrc file and the XSettings value is not taken into account.
> 
> Change the file "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" to comment out the icon theme like
> this:
> 
> gtk-theme-name = "Clearlooks"
> # gtk-icon-theme-name = "Clearlooks"
> 
> HTH
> Olivier.

It worked!  Thank you,
-T