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toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:35 Post subject: Icewm menu icons

I cannot get Icewm's menu icons to show. Only icons with a full path in the .desktop files show. I think I have the IconPath set correctly, but still no icons.

Any ideas?

Thanks

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Create a file /usr/share/icewm/prefoverride and add the following contents:

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Thu 15 Apr 2010, 18:02 Post subject:

Thanks... but I already have that in both my preferences file and my prefoveride file.

I am not sure if it makes any difference for this (it has for other things) but I am running Puppy Lupu.

Thanks.

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Sat 17 Apr 2010, 18:31 Post subject:

walter90 · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 283 Location: Pennsylvania, USA

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:28 Post subject:

Thanks,
I just made /etc/icewm and copied all the preference files from /root/.icewm to that folder, ran fixmenus and restarted icewm. Still no icons. Did I do something wrong?

Thanks.

WhoDo · Posted: Wed 21 Apr 2010, 04:23 Post subject:

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1383 Location: Australia

Why can't toomuchcomputertime just install Jemimah's icewm pet? It fixes the icons problem and has a shutdown menu. I'll bet toomuchcomputertime
is using 4.3x cause it seems to be showing the usual symptoms....

Battleshooter

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Thu 22 Apr 2010, 09:43 Post subject:

Thanks, yes I am using puppy lucid. I tried Icewm 1.3.2 and it would not give me icons, and icewm 1.3.5 did all sorts of weird stuff (italisized text in menus, doubled text...) but had icons. I found it was the file 'icewm' that made the difference. Yesterday I compiled 1.3.6 but it didn't give me icons either. Jeremiah's icewm (you just linked to) gives me all icons but the icons on the root menu (when you click the 'puppy button'), I can just put full paths in to fix that though. 1.3.2 showed icons when I put in the full path so I know it can support the icons I was using, it just was not using them for some reason, maybe because I am using Lucid.

Thanks everyone for your help, Jeremiah's pet is the fix I think. Laughing

Wow, Icons are nice!!!

walter90 · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 283 Location: Pennsylvania, USA

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Fri 23 Apr 2010, 08:26 Post subject:

Ok, I have another question, the icewm panel is using different sizes for the bar than for the minimize icons. I have been trying to edit the config files, but can't get it fixed. I have attached a picture. What do I need to change?

Thanks.

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 23 Apr 2010, 17:28 Post subject:

toomuchcomputertime · Posted: Mon 26 Apr 2010, 19:56 Post subject:

Ok, Thanks, I tried using a different theme and it works. The interesting thing is that it worked with a different version of icewm, maybe it reinstalled the theme with a older version of the theme?

Thanks