Re: Red X where volume control applet should be

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 hotmail com>]

Hi David. Most likely your problem is the same as in this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104935

As a fix for now you can do "configure --prefix=/usr/local"

Regards,
Kevin

> From: "David Cunningham" <delta radiusweb com>
> To: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm commsecure com au>,<gnome-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Red X where volume control applet should be
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:50:20 -0800
>
> Thank you for the suggestions Malcolm.  I've managed to figure out a way to
> resolve this but my way is only a weird hack.  Developers might have some
> insight into what's going on here.
>
> I noticed inside the /usr/local/libexec/mixer_applet2 file there are paths
> to the icons hard coded in.  The paths look like this:
> NONE/share/pixmaps/mixer/gnome-mixer-applet.png
> Each icon referenced has a NONE prepended where /usr should be.  I assume
> this is because NONE gets dynamically replaced with /usr at execution time.
> Using sed to replace all occurrences of NONE with /usr fixes the problem.
> This is strange considering that all the other applets in this directory
> also reference their icons using a NONE prefix and all the other applets
> properly DISPLAY their icons too.  For some reason this one applet when
> executed fails to have NONE dynamically replaced with /usr.
>
> I'd love to have a developer venture a guess as to why that may be.  Is
> there a developer list for gnome-applets?
>
> <|>/\\/|<|>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm commsecure com au>
> To: <gnome-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Red X where volume control applet should be
>
> > My first thought would be to have a look in $HOME/.xsession-errors. That
> > is where any error output is sent. So have a look for entries just after
> > you logged in (since that is when it is populating the panel) and see if
> > there is a complaint about a missing .png file.
> >
> > If your .xsession-errors file is as full of errors as my one is (some
> > GNOME applications leave warning and error messages all over the
> > carpet), you may wish to log out, delete that file and log in again so
> > that things are easier to find.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Malcolm
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:08, David Cunningham wrote:
> > > Hi Folks.  I'm running Gnome Desktop 2.2.0.1.  The Gnome volume 
> control
> > > applet however appears as a Red X instead of the volume icon as
> expected.
> > > I've parsed the volume control applet file through strings and 
> verified
> > > that the path to the volume control icon is pointing to the right 
> place
> > > and that the icon exists and is viewable.  All of Gnome (including the
> > > volume control applet) functions normally.  It's just this one 
> cosmetic
> > > issue that's bothering me.  I can't seem to figure out why the proper
> icon
> > > won't display.
> > >
> > > Is there any troubleshooting steps I can apply in to resolve this?  
> Any
> > > help would be much appreciated.
> >
> >
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