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dcbdbis

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From: Aurora, Colorado

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 247

{SOLVED} Latest Gnome Taskbar Loosing Icons

Good Morning,

Had a four year hiatus with Debian. Wow....Has Arch matured by leaps and bounds!. Good to be back "home".

I have the latest Gnome installed with all the extras and goodies and such.

One lone icone, the "show desktop" icon is inconsistent. On the majority (60%) of bootups, the icon is not there, however, the blank location still functions and shows the desktop if clicked!

The other boots, the entire theme I have selected is ignored. Whacking the X server (CTRL+ALT+BACK) will usually bring the theme "back" with the problematic icon shown.

Install method: Base, Pacman -Syu, then xorg, then gnome, with of course adding the appropriate daemons to the rc.conf. Gnome version is 2.24-3, and the platform is x86_64 on a Core2 quad.

Assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Dave

Last edited by dcbdbis (2009-02-04 16:14:42)

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: {SOLVED} Latest Gnome Taskbar Loosing Icons

Are you using the default gtk theme? Maybe try another theme and see if it makes a difference. I know I had a similar problem with the Network icon using a certain icon theme (Don't remember which).

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dcbdbis

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From: Aurora, Colorado

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 247

Re: {SOLVED} Latest Gnome Taskbar Loosing Icons

Thanks for the hint. I have changed the hint. I'll know in the next 24 hrs if that was the culprit, as I was using the "moomex" theme from gnome-look..

I'll update the thread in about a day.

Thanks!

Dave

dcbdbis

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From: Aurora, Colorado

Registered: 2004-09-10

Posts: 247

Re: {SOLVED} Latest Gnome Taskbar Loosing Icons

It was the Moomex theme causing the grief. Switching the theme corrected the problem. Thank you!

Dave.....................