Re: computer desktop icon

[<monkey1s2-lists yahoo com>]

Wow, thanks.  Now it works.  Didn't realize it was that simple. 
Thought I had done something wrong on the install.

Parrish

--- Darren Adams <darrenadams dsl pipex com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:28 -0800, monkey1s2-lists yahoo com wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I just installed garnome .30.1 everyting seems fine except when I
> open
> > the computer on the desktop.  Instead of seeing the various
> filesystems
> > and thier icons, I see the generic foot file icon with a name of
> .drive
> > and .desktop files.  When I click on them the system tells me that
> no
> > application is associated with those files.  Did I forget to make a
> > particular package... 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> I had this problem in the beginning too. If you are sure that you've
> installed gnome-icon-theme and hicolor-theme, you also need to set
> the
> XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable in your garnome-session script
> like
> so:
> 
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share
> 
> Then add the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable to the list of
> variables
> you export. Once you log in and log out, things should be fine.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>  - darren
> 
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