Re: Icons don't show up when emelfm2 is started

  • From: "Steven P. Ulrick" <meow8282@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:58:20 -0500

Hello, Adam
Here is how I set PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS for emelfm2:

PATH=/usr/local/spu/assorted/e/emelfm2/emelfm2-20130826/bin:$PATH
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/spu/assorted/e/emelfm2/emelfm2-20130826/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS

Is this correct?

Steven P. Ulrick


On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:12:26 -0500
Adam Krolnik <akrolnik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don't know about your situation. But your "no icons" picture looks
> like what I get
> when I don't install the full package, but just run the just built
> executable to test
> it out. I.e. maybe there's something with setting the runtime path to
> the icons.
> 
>   Adam
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Steven P. Ulrick
> <meow8282@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > Hello, Everyone
> > On Fedora 19, I have been having the following issue for a long
> > time: If I start emelfm2 in any one of the possible ways (click on
> > desktop icon, run emelfm2 from a terminal, "alt f2 | emelfm2") most
> > of the icons are replaced with what would be displayed if the
> > correct icon is not available.  Here is a screenshot that shows
> > what I'm talking about:
> >
> > http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/emelfm2-screenshot-missingicons
> >
> > But, if I open a termial, do "su - steve" and THEN run "emelfm2",
> > the icons show up as expected:
> >
> > http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/emelfm2-screenshot-withicons
> >
> > To clarify, I'll explain it like this:
> > 1. Open xterm and run "emelfm2"
> > 2. Result: almost no icons
> > (
> > http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/emelfm2-screenshot-missingicons
> > )
> > 3. From that same terminal, run "su - steve" and then "emelfm2".
> > Result: all icons are displayed as expected:
> >
> > http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/emelfm2-screenshot-withicons
> >
> > I have this issue with emelfm2 built from SVN, as well as the
> > version that is currently in the Fedora repository.  Just to be
> > safe, before I began writing this all down, I remove
> > ~/.config/emelfm2.  But that does NOT fix the problem.  So, I have
> > the issue with all version of emelfm2, even with completely fresh
> > configuration settings.
> >
> > I have not seen this behavior in any other application that I run
> > on my Fedora 19 system.
> >
> > If you need any further info, I will be glad to oblige.
> >
> > Steven P. Ulrick
> >
> >
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