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linuxed
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: XFCE missing icons? |
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| Hello. I have performed a fresh install of Gentoo. I went for the XFCE desktop environment. However I seem to have a problem I can't diagnose. The "Settings" panel, although showing all options (i.e. "Desktop/Display/File Manager/Keyboard/Mouse/Orage/etc."), shows the associated icons only for "Sound" and "File manager". Also when I chose to "Quit" XFCE and the logout/reboot/shutdown menu appears, there are no icons with the associated applications. The biggest problem is I have no idea where these icons are usually found.. as I have no idea what their default naming convention is. My Icon theme, according to the XFCE user interface dialogue, is "Rodent". Any help in things to try out in order to diagnose the problem would be great. |
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jonnevers
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: XFCE missing icons? |
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| linuxed wrote: | | Hello. I have performed a fresh install of Gentoo. I went for the XFCE desktop environment. However I seem to have a problem I can't diagnose. The "Settings" panel, although showing all options (i.e. "Desktop/Display/File Manager/Keyboard/Mouse/Orage/etc."), shows the associated icons only for "Sound" and "File manager". Also when I chose to "Quit" XFCE and the logout/reboot/shutdown menu appears, there are no icons with the associated applications. The biggest problem is I have no idea where these icons are usually found.. as I have no idea what their default naming convention is. My Icon theme, according to the XFCE user interface dialogue, is "Rodent". Any help in things to try out in order to diagnose the problem would be great. |
"rodent" is Xfce's default theme, so it's strange not all it's icons are showing up.
go to settings -> User Interface Settings -> Icon Theme tab. see if you have other themes available that may be complete.
do you have
| Code: | username hostname ~ $ emerge -pv xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.0 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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linuxed
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| There are no other themes installed. I have xfce4-icon-theme |
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Fabiolla
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Had the same problem, emerge x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme solved it.
(Xfce4 needs hicolor-icon-theme for default-icons) |
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vonr
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Fabiolla wrote: | Hi,
Had the same problem, emerge x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme solved it.
(Xfce4 needs hicolor-icon-theme for default-icons) |
I can confirm that this works, for gnome as well.
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linuxed
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | [ebuild R ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.9-r1 0 kB |
Having the same problem. |
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deno
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I am not using xfce fo a while but I remeber that there is an option somewhere that you can allow xfce to control your desktop, or something like that. It seems that from time to time this option becomes unchecked and then icons will disappear. Find that and check it again. |
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linuxed
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| I have re-emerged x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme; restarted XFCE and it's working now. Thanks for the help! Does anyone know why this happens? |
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seiichiro0185
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
had the same problem, I think the solution is to run gtk-update-icon-cache (i ran gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/Rodent/ which solved the problem for me). emerging hicolor-icon-theme does also run gtk-update-icon-cache, so thats why a remerge did solve the problem
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linuxed
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Great! Now I know why it worked! However, I'm still puzzled as to *why* this problem appeared in the first place :-/ |
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