Missing icons - SOLVED

[David]

On 8/31/2013 4:41 PM, killermoehre wrote:
> Am 31.08.2013 21:07, schrieb David:
>> On 8/31/2013 1:59 PM, killermoehre wrote:
>>> Am 31.08.2013 19:27, schrieb David:
>>>> Again I apologize. As you can see I have posted this to two places that
>>>> are directly involved. I have recieved nothing but acknowledgment that
>>>> this is broken and it appears that either they don't care or they can't
>>>> fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone here be able to offer some suggestions or help?
>>>>
>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>
>>>> I apologize for posting this to two lists. However I posted this to the
>>>> Fedora Testers list on August 17 and Rex Dieter was the only person to
>>>> reply. I appreciate his help. But since it did not solve this situation
>>>> I would like to ask this here with a slight modification.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In Rawhide (which should have been Branched to future Fedora 20 but now)
>>>> with Xfce as the desktop the icons in the greeter have been missing, for
>>>> me, for several weeks. Which means that they are missing in bothe the
>>>> Fedora 20 Branch and in my Rawhide which is now to be Fedora 21. Would
>>>> anyone happen to know what package provides them?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> In Arch, I use hicolor-icon-theme, gnome-icon-theme,
>>> gnome-icon-theme-symbolic and the icon-naming-utils. This provides a
>>> very well base for the icon theme of my choice, Faenza.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Thank you. I had all but  icon-naming-utils  installed. Switching
>> between various icon themes is easier but it has no affect on the
>> missing icons in the Greeter screen.
>>
>> Thank you again.
>>
> 
> At least for lightdm you need to specify the icon theme in the config file.


A *really* big thank you sir!

That was it. In the above mentioned Fedoras that line is commented out
with a '#' and there is no icon-theme named after the '='.

Editing both of those solved this.

I will add it to their Bugzilla. If you are interested:

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999158>

Thank you again.

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  David