No desktop Icons in Xfce [SOLVED]

sall · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 314 Location: WV, USA

I would like to have a desktop with no icons in Xfce. However, when I go to Settings > Desktop Settings and uncheck "Allow Xfce to manage desktop" I no longer have a wallpaper. Is there anyway to have no icons on Desktop but still use a wallpaper instead of solid color background? Thanks in advance!Wallpaper when
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M · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432

You can set wallpaper with feh --bg-scale for example and then put in autostart

sall · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 314 Location: WV, USA

sall · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 314 Location: WV, USA

Well, I figured it out. Easy fix actually. Don't know how I missed it!

Settings > Desktop Settings > Behavior > Desktop Icons > None
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* 1Gb RAM
* 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64
* Xfce4

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:59 am Post subject:

To get the icons back, do the following:

1) echo "=media-libs/libpng-1.2.35" >> /etc/portage/package.mask...or add =media-libs/libpng-1.2.35 to /etc/portage/package.mask.
2) emerge -av libpng.

Apparently, libpng is broken again. I'm going to check bugzilla and post a bug report if one doesn't exist.

Please verify. I am away from home, and can only check on pappy-lap.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

Or not. Apparently, that only worked on one machine...and not too well. Entering emerge -av x11-themes/tango-icon-theme actually works. Nevermind the above post. My bad. :oops:

Blessed be!
Pappy
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FizzyWidget · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

bad pappy, go to your room no dinner for you tonight
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:50 am Post subject:

hehehe

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azmodai · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 63

Hello,

Since I installed the latest XFce some icons are lacking in the panel and menus. (lacking icons are replaced by "default white-and-crossed-out icons").
I tried to change icon themes several times but lacking icons still lack, nothing replace them ....
Is there a path problem somewhere ? Did you experience a similar problem with XFce ?

this is not that important but it's annoying .....

thanks,

xaviermiller · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

Hello,

What icon themes are installed ?

In my case, I emerged

s0ulslack · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:45 am Post subject:

Indeed, you just need a complete theme. As suggested, Tango is a fairly complete theme but you can also poke over http://xfce-look.org for others

azmodai · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 63

I've installed the three pkgs and two or maybe three more icons appeared :-(

Thanks for your help,
I'm going to download some more complete themes and see what happen

Nerevar · l33t Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 720

These are the two I install:

nixnut · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject:

merged above five posts here
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maratbn · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2012 Posts: 12

Emerging 'x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme' got the icons under Panel -> Panel Preferences -> Items working for me.