Re: lost my desktop icons

[Kervin <kpierre fit edu>]

hi,

thanks for the reply, but I did do --prefix=/usr.  Plus the full path of
the Icon is being specified in the shortcut file, so I can't see how it
can be a path problem. The file is a stock gnome icon and does exist.


Thanks again,
Kervin

"Brian E. Seppanen" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Kervin wrote:
> 
> > I have a shortcut on my desktop that looks like this
> >
> > [kervin@sojourn .gnome-desktop]$ more netscape.desktop
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=netscape
> > Exec=/usr/bin/netscape
> > Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/netscape.png
> > Terminal=false
> > MultipleArgs=false
> > Type=Application
> >
> > But instead of using netscape.png, gnome uses the default icon (a plain
> > file) to display the shortcut.  Even if I right click on the icon (on my
> > desktop) and choose properties and change the icon there, when I press
> > ok nothing changes.  This has been happening since I upgraded gnome from
> > the one that came with Redhat 6 to the latest tarballs.  This also
> > happens with my gnome-terminal shortcut on my desktop.
> 
> I had a similar issue where I upgraded from 5.x rpms to the latest
> tarballs, and all of my menu options disappeared.  This may be a similar
> situation.  What happened to me was that rpms put everything in
> /usr/share/... and compiling the tarballs puts everything in
> /usr/local/share/...
> 
> When you compiled, you're icons might have migrated from
> /usr/share/pixmaps (where the rpm put them), to /usr/local/share/pixmaps
> (where the tarballs put them).  Easiest way to find out is use gmc to see
> if the pixmap is indeed in /usr/share/pixmaps.
> 
> What you can do is uninstall the gnome packages you installed from
> tarball by doing a make uninstall in the src directory, and then
> recompile.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr (if you're not in the habit of first doing
>         ./configure --help get used to doing it because sometimes there are
>         options that are really nice to know about that aren't included in the
>         default configure)
> make
> make install
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Brian Seppanen
> seppanen@bresnanlink.net