On 09/02/2015 08:36 AM, Paul Rogers wrote:
Sorry for not being clearer. I have some icons in the menus, some
not. I understand how to handle those, if I wanted to spend/waste the
time. The problem is I get nothing in Thunar (as in subject line?)
file manager, no icons(?) to indicate a directory, no thumbnails for
files, text/image/PDF/et al., nothing but a list of names. That's not
really useable.
Hi Paul,
I remember having a similar problem, last summer when I built XFCE from
BLFS. I don't remember the details but there was no way to get "proper
folder icons" in Thunar... and it was very annoying.
I spent a few frustrating hours into this, but I do not remember how I
solved it. The fact is that I still drag a couple files from one backup
to another and I just remember that I shouldn't delete them "because I
will need them for the next XFCE".
These are the suspects:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69K Aug 7 07:55 icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8M Aug 7 07:55 tango-icon-theme-0.8.90.tar.gz
icon-naming-utils package is in BLFS but tango-icon-theme, is not.
This is my actual /usr/share/icons directory in that machine:
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jun 29 2014 gnome
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 22 2014 handhelds
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jul 28 2014 hicolor
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 22 2014 redglass
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 29 2014 Tango
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 22 2014 whiteglass
Looks like I installed XFCE on Jun 22nd, but until a few days later, on
29th I wasn't satisfied... My XFCE icons in that machine are set to
"Tango" but I have no script to install them, so probably they were
untarred into the directory.
I also remember a hint (from Fernando?) about LXAppearance, but I'm not
sure if that solved the problem, but I recall it quiet helpful and is
also installed on this XFCE build.
More important for BLFS, my hypothesis was that when you build a minimal
XCFE as per the book, indeed, installed icons/themes do not adapt right
to modern resolutions (1920x1080). By minimal I mean just GTK2+ and XFCE
packages. (Installing Gnome o KDE aside, probably masks this issue, I
don't know.) Just a hypothesis, that I'm postponing to test until "next
XFCE".
Hope this helps!!
ALZ.
PS: If this solves the problem, all credits go to
http://tango.freedesktop.org
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