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Alberto Ferreira

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Registered: 2008-10-08

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No icons within Xfce

I installed xfce4 using the wiki instructions but the problem is that I have no icons:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3694/screenn.png

I have installed the gnome and tango-icon-theme but nothing happened.

I also downloaded a icon theme from xfce-look.org and extracted it to a folder named .themes in my home folder. I also copied it to /usr/share/icons and put gtk-icon-theme-name="..." in .gtkrc/2.0 at the home folder and set it as executable.

The file manager and other apps crash because of this so it's nearly useless the state of my system right now.

Can someone please help me?

Edited by B: cleaned out your title, no need to shout

Last edited by B (2009-08-03 09:54:21)

Anda

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Registered: 2009-07-14

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Re: No icons within Xfce

Try extraxting this icon theme to the .icons in your home folder:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … tent=99470

Then select "Simple" in Menu > Settings > Appearance > Icons

Last edited by Anda (2009-07-25 19:14:05)

djszapi

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Re: No icons within Xfce

"The file manager and other apps crash because of this" -> How can we know that or from where ? What does it mean by you 'crash' ? Ca you post some related log content?

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Alberto Ferreira

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Re: No icons within Xfce

The same happens even with that Simple icon theme.

(thunar:2444): thunar-vfs-WARNING **: A ligação ao daemon HAL falhou: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Thunar-ERROR **: Falhou ao carregar o ícone padrão de "/usr/share/pixmaps/Thunar/Thunar-fallback-icon.png" (Formato de ficheiro de imagem desconhecido). Verifique sua instalação!
aborting...
Aborted

And that's the crash - I cannot open the file manager for instance

I formatted the pc to install the 64bit version and the same problem is happening again. Last time the problem got solved by installing lxde on top of xfce. However I really want to avoid that ths time for obvious reasons. Help

Last edited by Alberto Ferreira (2009-08-02 22:59:31)

arkham

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Re: No icons within Xfce

Have you installed all the packages/groups listed here -> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfc … stall_Xfce ?

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uncholowapo

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Re: No icons within Xfce

Install the tango icon theme.

Rasi

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Re: No icons within Xfce

The same happens even with that Simple icon theme.

(thunar:2444): thunar-vfs-WARNING **: A ligação ao daemon HAL falhou: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Thunar-ERROR **: Falhou ao carregar o ícone padrão de "/usr/share/pixmaps/Thunar/Thunar-fallback-icon.png" (Formato de ficheiro de imagem desconhecido). Verifique sua instalação!
aborting...
Aborted

And that's the crash - I cannot open the file manager for instance

I formatted the pc to install the 64bit version and the same problem is happening again. Last time the problem got solved by installing lxde on top of xfce. However I really want to avoid that ths time for obvious reasons. Help

That error is not related. Is dbus/hal running?

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Alberto Ferreira

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Re: No icons within Xfce

I had installed all things from the wiki page (including the themes)

How do I know if dbus is running?

I haven't installed dbus nor hal.

Last edited by Alberto Ferreira (2009-08-03 10:36:13)