symlink in /usr/share/icons

Jonas Kulla nyocurio at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 19:24:16 CET 2013


2013/2/7 Martin crysman Zahradník <crysman at seznam.cz>

> Hello,
>
> please, is it correct that for me it does not work creating a symbilic
> link (to a directory) in /usr/share/icons and not having the new icons
> listed when I want to change an icon on the panel e.g.?
>
> situation:
> $ sudo ln -s ~/icons/ /usr/share/icons
>
> $ tree ~/icons/
> /home/crysman/icons/
> └── 64x64
> ├── rp.ico
> └── rp.png
>
> 1 directory, 2 files
>
> $ file /usr/share/icons/icons
> /usr/share/icons/icons: symbolic link to `/home/crysman/icons/'
>
>
> Thank you very much
> McZ
>
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Hm, have you tried running gtk-update-icon-cache on the directory?

 - Jonas
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