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#1 2008-10-08 02:07:07

dbbolton
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Problem with Thunar and Icons

First off, I'm running Arch as a guest in VirtualBox.

When I launch thunar, I get this:

(thunar:14218): thunar-vfs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the HAL daemon: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

 Thunar-ERROR **: Failed to load fallback icon from "/usr/share/pixmaps/Thunar/Thunar-fallback-icon.png" (Unrecognized image file format). Check your installation!

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I have installed Rodent, Gnome, and Tango icon themes, but all of my icons are just the plain document with a red X.

What is going on?

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#2 2008-10-08 02:22:46

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

Welcome to the forums dbbolton.

I have no idea what's going on with your setup, but I do know that a lot of people are having some issues with the most recent udev upgrade. These threads are mostly being solved by a system restart. Have you by any chance upgraded udev and not restarted the system?

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#3 2008-10-08 02:28:01

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

Try to open that file with a PNG viewer (Firefox would work if you have no others).

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#4 2008-10-08 02:29:16

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

skottish wrote:

Welcome to the forums dbbolton.

I have no idea what's going on with your setup, but I do know that a lot of people are having some issues with the most recent udev upgrade. These threads are mostly being solved by a system restart. Have you by any chance upgraded udev and not restarted the system?

I ran pacman -Syu (after manually dodging the error with klibc) then restarted, but I still have this problem.

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#5 2008-10-08 02:37:56

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

dav7 wrote:

Try to open that file with a PNG viewer (Firefox would work if you have no others).

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I opened the file with feh and it worked fine.

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#6 2008-10-08 02:54:36

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

I missed the first part of the first error, and this may have nothing to do with the icon problem, but do you have hal running?

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#7 2008-10-08 03:05:19

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

skottish wrote:

I missed the first part of the first error, and this may have nothing to do with the icon problem, but do you have hal running?

No, I didn't. After I started it that error went away.

On a whim I installed pcmanfm through pacman and, lo and behold, thunar and all icons miraculously started working! I still have no Idea why they weren't working before though.

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#8 2008-10-08 03:09:58

skottish
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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

Add hal to the daemons line in rc.conf. It will autostart dbus for you. And, I personally prefer pcmanfm over thunar, mainly because everything from XFCE performs horribly on this system.

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#9 2008-10-08 04:42:16

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

It thought it may be something to do with the Rodent theme.  I remember it was doing the same for me, but when I changed to the Tango theme everything is fine.  I use Thunar but do not run hal or dbus.

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#10 2008-10-08 13:03:06

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

Wittfella wrote:

It thought it may be something to do with the Rodent theme.  I remember it was doing the same for me, but when I changed to the Tango theme everything is fine.  I use Thunar but do not run hal or dbus.

I had tried switching the icon theme to Tango and Gnome to no avail.

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#11 2008-10-08 14:35:03

burnside
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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

Howdy dbbolton!

I've encountered this issue when I didn't have hi-color icons installed on my system. I have no idea why they would matter if you're using Tango (at the very least the Tango icons should have worked for your directories), but it's a possibility. hmm

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#12 2008-10-08 18:58:46

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

burnside wrote:

Howdy dbbolton!

I've encountered this issue when I didn't have hi-color icons installed on my system. I have no idea why they would matter if you're using Tango (at the very least the Tango icons should have worked for your directories), but it's a possibility. hmm

Hmm, then it seems that hicolor icons should be listed as one of thunar's dependencies, or at least recommended.

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#13 2008-10-20 08:58:23

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Re: Problem with Thunar and Icons

After a recent update I had this same issue. GDM was broken pretty bad too!  I installed pcmanfm and everything works now.  o_O

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