Icon problem

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sat Dec 18 21:03:26 CET 2004


Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>
>>> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Even a link in $HOME/.icons does not help. Strace shows that he 
>>>>> finds it, but ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Bernhard. Could you send that strace output to me? I'd like to 
>>>> have a look at it.
>>>>
>>>> Another thing, do you have /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, if I copy /opt/gnome/share/icons/hicolor to 
>>> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ (which is no solution, I think, I don't 
>>> want to move files, I just want to install RPMs and it should work, 
>>> and it worked with rc1). But, anyway, it does not solve the icon 
>>> issue, I still see only a few icons in the settings manager.
>>>
>>> I send you the strace file with private mail.
>>
>>
>> Thanks. Xfce seems to look in the right location, but can't find the 
>> icons. Do you have any xfce* icons in 
>> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x4/apps/ ?
> 
> 
> Yes, that's the problem. I moved /opt/... stuff to /usr/share/icons 
> stuff and then there were no xfce icons in that place. In normal mode, 
> there were the icons but no index.theme.
> 
> So the bug is: Why doesn't libxfcegui4 no 
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme?
> 

If you install from source it does install it. If the rpm for Suse 
doesn't, that sounds like a packaging bug to me.

If you reinstall libxfcegui4 and then copy the index.theme file from 
/opt/gtk/... , can you confirm that it works then?





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