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leftylink

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From: Secure and undisclosed

Registered: 2009-01-25

Posts: 23

Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

Hey Arch Users,

First of all, thanks to developers, testers, and packagers and pretty much everyone who got xfce 4.6 rolled out quickly. I've upgraded and am pretty happy except for a few small problems that I am working through bit by bit. (managed to get gstreamer for the new mixer working out of the box, so no problems there)

The icons in my menu seem to be broken (most of them are those red X's you see), or some of them just don't show up. Is there some way to just restore my menu to the default or get my icons back?

I realize the menu editor has disappeared; I'm willing to tinker around wtih text files.

Thanks for your help.

sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

install  tango-icon-theme or gnome-icon-theme.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

search my friend. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 93#p507293

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

I have searched - and installed gnome-icon-theme and tango-icon-theme[-extras] (well - actually they were allready installed) and removed xfce-icon-theme all to no avail. I still cant see the icons in panel #2 - other than the menu and exit icons. The 4 intermediate ones (terminal, editor, file-manager, browser) are completely invisible but shows up as a square (with text) on mouse-over.

Any other good ideas anyone?

<edit>
OK - it would seem we now - per default - only have _one_ panel.
After deleting everything under .config, I can now see all my icons.
Bit of pest to reconfigure my entire desktop, but hey, I can live with that.
One li'l thing still irks me - I cant choose a path for my backgrounds!
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Last edited by perbh (2009-03-03 17:20:35)

hermansen

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 7

Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

Hello

You need to install shared-mime-info

pacman -S shared-mime-info

You also need tango-icon-theme or gnome-icon-theme

blackhole

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 148

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Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

I'm having the same problem. After installing tango-icon-theme, tango-icon-theme-extras, gnome-icon-theme and shared-mime-info I chose Tango from the XFCE appearance icons settings.

Many icons appeared. However there's still two icons missing: in the main menu the submenu "education" is displayed as a red cross and in the XFCE settings "keyboard" doesn't have an icon at all.

Any suggestions how to fix that?

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hermansen

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Registered: 2008-11-10

Posts: 7

Re: Xfce 4.4->4.6 broke some icons

You can change the icon name in xfce4-keyboard-settings.desktop and add a icon name xfce-education.directory

Last edited by hermansen (2009-03-10 13:08:40)