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

  • From: Adam Krolnik <akrolnik@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:12:26 -0500

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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Adam Krolnik

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