No Adobe Reader icon on XFCE menus

Yogiz yogizz at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 23:24:33 CEST 2007


Perhaps you should check the file system premissions on
AdobeReader8.png. Is it readable by everybody?

You can also try another picture in it's place, does that show up?


On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:14:53 +0100
"Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/30/07, Martin Kraus <lists_mk at wujiman.net> wrote:
> > > > I guess you mean that there is no entry at  XFCE -> Office ->
> > > > Adobe Reader at all? Not just the icon? Because that's how it
> > > > is on my desktop.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Stefan. I mean that there is no icon for the Adobe Reader
> > > menu entry; the menu entry exists.
> >
> > find the menu entry for adobe. it will be somewhere in
> > {/usr/share,~/.local/share}/applications. it will be a .desktop
> > file. look inside a and find an Icon= record. there is a name of
> > the icon that should be used. you have to verify that this icon
> > exists. it should be somewhere under
> > {/usr/share,~/.local/share}/icons or possibly ~/.icons. it might
> > even be an absolute path (beginning with /) and then you have to
> > verify that it points to an existing file.
> 
> Thanks, Martin. I do have the file
> 
> /usr/local/share/applications/AdobeReader.desktop
> 
> and therein the line
> 
> Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/AdobeReader8.png
> 
> and an icon with that path does exists. However, the icon does not
> show up in the Adobe Reader menu entry. No progress if I replace the
> above line by
> 
> Icon=AdobeReader8.png
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 
> Paul
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