nautilus icons gone awol

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Hi guys again :confused:

I have fixed all my fvwm icon sets and things are starting to come together.

I have another icon prob that having googled seems to be relatively common but none of the solutions I read have worked for me:

linuxquestions.org/questions ā€¦ p?t=245482
nautilus icons on fluxbox with a suggestion to:

and

linuxquestions.org/questions ā€¦ p?t=280086

neither of these have worked for me - I still have the default blank page with corner turned down icon for all my nautilus icons (except where thumbnails are kicking in)
I am launching nautilus with exec nautilus --no-desktop and the standard icons are in my images path of config.

Any suggestions?Thanks as always :slight_smile:
Will

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Wildly off-topic, hence moved to ā€˜ā€˜other questionsā€™ā€™. Please be more precise with question placement in the future, William.

ā€“ Thomas Adam

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This is probably the same problem reported here and can be solved by running /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon.

Unless it turns out these topics are not related Iā€™ll probably lock this one and move it to dups, Iā€™ll give it some days first (and hope I donā€™t forget :wink: )

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Thanks BlackDragon - this fixed the Nautilus problem. Something still wierd with the gnome-panel and I have ditched it anyway - so I canā€™t confirm that but I suspect that this is the solution. Many thanks.

Sorry about the duplicate - seems that I am really struggling around here :confused:

William

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Iā€™m not sure what you mean by that, but the icon directory should be in ~/.icons (or /usr/share/icons).

For example, I have ~/.icons/nuoveXT-1.6/index.theme and

gtk-icon-theme-name = "nuoveXT-1.6"

Itā€™s pretty silly to run gnome-settings-daemon just for your GTK icon theme when itā€™s not needed, in my opinion.

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Hmm, that would imply that your avery default GTK installation is broken then? I donā€™t really feel the need to have duplicates of system wide installed themes in my homedir just so GTK can find themā€¦

Running gnome-settings-daemon is more of a convenience solution I use until I bump into a better one (I donā€™t feel like searching hours after something that ought to ā€˜just workā€™)

As a sidenote: seeing that this thread is not related to the one mentioned before it does not calssify as a dup and thus can stay around :slight_smile:

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OK, so I am pointing at the icon directory that houses the GTK icons for Nautilus but I have not defined the ā€œthemeā€ as you suggest StoneCrest. (/usr/share/icons)

gtk-icon-theme-name = "nuoveXT-1.6"

is that an .Xdefaults entry? My gnome install got broken badly when I was screwing around with hot swapping wms from metacity to fvwm and I have abandoned gnome for the moment entirely.

The only thing I had to change when using the settings-daemon is that it starts xscreensaver for me and I had to remove that from the start function in fvwm config.

In fact I think if I can find a better fm than nautilus I will dump it - just not that familiar with rox or any alternatives - such is the sheltered gnome life I have lived :slight_smile:

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No. It goes in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

ā€“ Thomas Adam