> I never use Thunar or any file manager. The command line is good
> enough for me. That said, I brought it up and everything has an icon.
Yes, well, I've been using LFS as my go-to system for over a decade, and
{black,flux}box has always been good enough for me, even if I built KDE
once back then (on a Pentium 233!), and last time tried experimenting
with LXDE when it could still use GTK.
> $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: 1.4 Distributor ID: Linux From
> Scratch Description: Linux From Scratch Release: SVN-
> 20120610
>
> XFCE Version 4.10
Yep, 4.10 here too, and about that era of SVN. Other than that, I don't
see anything prescriptive there. Must be something else.
> 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.
I'll browse the list archives.
>
> 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
I generally use 800x600, maybe 1024x768 once in a while for
something specific.
> 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.
It may. Gives me a direction to go at least. Thanks.
>
> PS: If this solves the problem, all credits go to
> http://tango.freedesktop.org
Maybe I'll look there too. I think I downloaded Tango once upon a time,
long long ago.
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