Re: icon path other than /usr/share/icons

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:04:05 -0700
Philip Brown <phil bolthole com> wrote:
> I'm compiling a gtk-based set of libraries under /opt, rather than the
> usual. Things are going fairly well, except that it seems to keep
> looking for icons under /usr/share/icons
> 
> I've read assorted web pages, that seem to mention things like
> pixmap_path,  GTK2_RC, and themes.
> But none of the above seem to help.

You probably need to set XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.

Chris