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mumpf

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 95

xfce: no icon for new software

I have installed tux-commander and gtkam, but in the xfce-menue there is only the entry, but not the icon. How can I edit the menue and link the proper icon? The ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml doesn't seem to be valid (a lot of menu-entries are missing). I have installed tango, as recommended in , but I can't find anything but gnome and rodent.

jean-paul

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 61

Re: xfce: no icon for new software

Open with youre favorite editor

geany /usr/share/applications/geany.desktop
(geany is a  Example !!)

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/geany.png

and edit the icon-line to the correct path. take a look in /usr/share/pixmaps.

You can also do a

gtk-update-icon-cache -ft /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Jean-Paul

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mumpf

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 95

Re: xfce: no icon for new software

I have opened /usr/share/applications/tuxcmd.desktop and added the icon-entry (e.g. Tux Commander)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Tux Commander
Comment=A GTK2 file manager with two panels
Exec=tuxcmd
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/24754-tuxcmd.png
Categories=Application;System;

Now I can see the icon in the xfce-menu.

Your second option didn't help with gtkam and tux-commander.

How does it come, that most of the installed applications (anything else like brasero, abiword ... are linked to the png automatically?

Anyway, thanks a lot.

Last edited by mumpf (2007-12-29 09:58:47)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: xfce: no icon for new software

I am not sure but I believe that's decided in the package build. If my package needed a *.desktop file it was in the archive that yaourt d/l'd and extracted before it was installed.

What I am trying to say is that it may just be a mistake by the person who made the package build.