No Adobe Reader icon on XFCE menus

[Paul Smith]

On 9/30/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps you should check the file system premissions on
> > AdobeReader8.png. Is it readable by everybody?
>
> # dir -l /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/AdobeReader8.png
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1647 2007-09-30 17:53
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/AdobeReader8.png
> #
>
> > You can also try another picture in it's place, does that show up?
>
> Tried with the line
>
> Icon=/home/psmith/.icons/ROX/MIME/mime-video.png
>
> and no icon is shown in the Adobe Reader menu entry.
>
> Should I reboot for taking effect the changes?

In addition, I would like to report that the icon does show up if I
use KDE instead of XFCE.

Paul



> >
> > 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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