[SOLVED] XFCE4 Icon Problem

TKH · 08-27-2012, 10:06 AM

Hi, I just compiled and installed XFCE-4.10 Desktop, and I found out that the Desktop I just compiled cannot display icon (I also tried looking to "Start => Setting => Appearance => Icon" menu)

I use the LFS-7.0 as my base, with i686 arch.
I have installed all the required, recommended, and some optional packages.

Anyone have encountered this problem?

vtel57 · 08-28-2012, 08:01 PM

You can download and install icon sets from xfce-look.org/icons. Just add them to the .icons folder in your home directory. If properly extracted and installed, they should appear in your Xfce-menu --> Settings --> Appearance --> icons tab.

Luck!

TKH · 08-28-2012, 11:53 PM

can i use the default hicolor icons?

vtel57 · 08-29-2012, 12:14 AM

If your Xfce compiled and installed correctly, you should find the hicolor icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor. If they're not working by default, you can copy that entire directory to your ~/.icons directory, making sure you have proper permissions after copying, of course.

From the Xfce Wiki:

Quote:

Icons

-- Extract the theme in ~/.icons
-System wide installation in ${sysprefix}/share/icons
-- Optional: run gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.icons/<theme_name> to create an icon cache 1)
-- If the theme contains scalable icons (~/.icons/<theme_name>/scalable) make sure you have librsvg installed
-- Select the theme in the User Interface Settings (2nd tab, Xfce 4.4.x) or in the Appearance Settings (2nd tab, Xfce 4.6.x)

When you have icon theme problems, it's also recommended to install the hicolor-icon-theme package.

TKH · 08-29-2012, 02:34 AM

it still doesn't show up

Btw, I noticed that some package-specific icons (thunar, panel setting, power manager setting, WM settings, session setting are all that i noticed) have their icons shown. When I copy the /usr/share/icons/* to ~/.icons , these icons went missing.

I see also that there are always these warnings:

Quote:

GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_loadable_icon_load: assertion `G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' failed

vtel57 · 08-29-2012, 10:56 AM

Hmm... GLib warnings - not so good. Personally, I wouldn't rack my brain trying to debug this. I would probably remove the current installation and recompile the Xfce again and see what happens.

TKH · 08-29-2012, 11:36 PM

So is it some kind of error from the mis-compiling?
The strange thing is, why is it affects just icon?

I think there is a pattern on which the icons are missing:
- All the icons on the dock (which are mostly commands)
- The settings from xfce4-settings
- The start menu icons
- File icons

vtel57 · 08-30-2012, 12:24 AM

Those are basically all the icons in the icon theme. The issue may be with the icons only because there is an issue with the compiling that is affecting rendering of .png images, which is what the entire default hicolor icon set contains. Purely a guess, though.

What method did you use to build this on your LFS system? This one --> http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building

It can be a chore to troubleshoot a bad build, if that's what it actually is that's causing you these issues. If you're young and have lots of time on your hands, go for it. As you get older, though, you begin to prefer quicker solutions... re-compile, for example.

TKH · 08-30-2012, 05:47 AM

A little details, I hope it helps:

LDFLAGS=-s CC='gcc -s'
CFLAGS=CPPFLAGS=CXXFLAGS='-Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i686'

I have installed all the required and recommended dependencies, and almost all of the optional ones; except for thunar-volman and packages from gnome.

Does that add some clue?

vtel57 · 08-30-2012, 10:55 AM

No help. Sorry. If you someone else here at LQ.org doesn't jump in with some advice, TKH, I would suggest contacting the LFS community and see if anyone there has experienced this same issue and may possibly know a way to resolve it for you. If you do find a solution outside or LQ.org, please post here what happened. I'm curious, you know.

Regards,

~Eric

TKH · 08-30-2012, 02:17 PM

I actually joined the BLFS-Support mailing list.
I also have asked about this at my local forum.

Still no solution...

Well, I decided to reset all the procedure from before I install X11.

I'll give you the update

vtel57 · 08-30-2012, 02:59 PM

OK. Luck with it.

Keith Hedger · 08-31-2012, 07:44 AM

Try installing a decent icon theme from xfce-look.org ( I would suggest nouvou-grey ).
Also run these commands ( as root )

Code:

/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
fc-cache -f
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome
/usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules

This should update the various caches.

TKH · 09-04-2012, 07:48 AM

Okay, now I have reinstalled all the tools needed for XFCE.

There are some changes:

No more "GLib-GIO-CRITICAL" thingy again
Some icons starts to appear, but most still don't show up, I'm pretty sure that this is caused by runtime error, but I don't know what to do.
There is this warning:
Code:
```
Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library
Using the fallback 'C' locale
```
I don't even think it's important...
Is there anyone who know how to set the locale to "C"? It's not like I care that much, but kinda annoying to me.

TKH · 09-04-2012, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TKH

There is this warning:
Code:
```
Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library
Using the fallback 'C' locale
```
I don't even think it's important...
Is there anyone who know how to set the locale to "C"? It's not like I care that much, but kinda annoying to me.

I got this one fixed