On 10/11/16 13:36, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
> I have Slackware Linux, not freebsd, but on my system the icons are
> cached and there is a program called /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache,
> which is supposed to update the cache when new icons are stored in
> /usr/(local/)share/icons/hicolor.  I have a manpage on it, so you
> could try it to see if you have it.  When I install AOO, my
> installation script does this caching and I have no problems with the
> icons in xfce4.  It is also possible that xfce4 is expecting the
> icons to be in /usr/share/icons rather than /usr/local/share/icons.
> I have had such problems with other programs in the past.

excellent, that did it.
Thanks

> Note: xfce4 expects the desktop files (*.desktop) to be +x, otherwise
> I get a popup about the file being untrusted.  It allows you to
> bypass the popup, but it is annoying.  I set the desktop files in
> /opt/openoffice4/share/xdg/ to +x to resolve this. Misusing the
> executable flags for trustworthyness is an xfce4 kluge, but that is
> the way it is.

hmm.  mine are 444 and I don't get anything.  Running xfce 4.12

Thanks again!

> On 10/11/2016 12:16 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> On 10/11/16 12:42, Hagar Delest wrote:
>> 
>>> How have you installed with the debs? If so, you should have a
>>> desktop-integration folder inside the DEBS folder. Just install
>>> it also. Else, check the folder:
>>> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps
>> Ah, thanks. Ok, I see the icons are there; on my system (freebsd)
>> they are in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor... which is where they
>> should be.
>> 
>> However, the xfce4 launcher icon chooser doesn't have a way to add
>> an arbitrary path to the set of icons, so I can't set it.  This is
>> clearly not an aoo problem, but do you happen to know where the
>> config path for the xfce4 icon chooser is?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>>> Le 11/10/2016 à 20:31, Gary Aitken a écrit :
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I just upgraded my os from fbsd-9.2 to 10.3 and installed aoo
>>>> 4.1.2. The installation appears to have gone well, but when I
>>>> start up my desktop (xfce4) the launchers with shortcuts to aoo
>>>> are missing the icons. My
>>>> /usr/local/applications/openoffice-4.1.2/*.desktop files have
>>>> entries in them which look like: Icon=openoffice4-calc
>>>> 
>>>> However, when I open the xfec4 panel / launcher to edit it, the
>>>> icon entry says "No Icon" and when I go to select an icon there
>>>> are no aoo icons present.
>>>> 
>>>> Can someone tell me which option is needed to load the icons,
>>>> which port / package they are in, and which file they are
>>>> supposed to be in?  I would have thought they were supposed to
>>>> get loaded with the base aoo port. How do the icons get located
>>>> without an actual path name in the specification?



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