Solved No menubar icons in XFCE with new XOrg :-(

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voxel

Hello ^^)

Since the last Xorg update I have a new icon set installed on my xfce4 under FreeBSD10.1 newly installed laptop.

But now when I launch Xfce I do not see the icons that were in the menu bar.

I tried Xfce's preference menu and all the options for theme and icons and still no icons in the menu bar :-( some are replaced by a small circle but most aren't.

What can be missing ?

Thanks by advance for the help ^^)

Amigalibrement,
JF Voxel.
 
Well, in fact Tango icons and extras are installed, but choosing them as the default icons theme for Xfce by its preference panel does nothing :-( still no icons shown.
 
Please, could you post result of this command (in Xorg session):

Code: 
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName

Are you .gtkrc-2.0 file?
 
olivierd said:
Please, could you post result of this command (in Xorg session):

Code: 
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/IconThemeName
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Answer is "gnome".

Are you .gtkrc-2.0 file?
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What? Sorry don't understand the question ^^)

There is a new problem that's appeared after I've tried to change the icons theme for Xfce, the background picture of my xfce4 desktop has disappeared (black screen instead) and when I want to open the desktop preference panel all I get is an xfdesktop.core and xfdesktop-settings.core dumps... :-(

Help!
 
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There are new problems that's appeared: as said in the precedent post.

- the background pic of xfce4 has disappeared and just a black background is shown now;
- if I try to open the desktop preference panel it crash without opening its window and produce a xfdesktop.core dump AND xfdesktop-setting.core dump;
- I have force-reinstalled all x11 components and xfce but the problems are still there...

What can I do to get my xfce desktop working as before?
Thanks for the tips...
 
A small update on these problems:

- reinstalled all Xorg and xfce4 stuff using portmaster -t so all is freshly installed and up to date;

- using the "appearance" preference panel I've been able to get the tango icons set works again, so the xfce menu bar icons problems is resolved :)

- but still no way to open the desktop preference panel, it crashes and produce the core dumps quoted in the precedent post, so still no background :-( AND (a thing I've forgotten) no icons on the desktop as well! before I had the trash and some volumes icons that was displayed...

How can I get this to work again?
 
Something else that depends on is broken. I don't know what -t does when building with portmaster, I've never used it. I would use this:
portmaster `pkg info -d xfce4-desktop`

Please also install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk -qo.
 
Hi Voxel,

I have the same problem, seems it related with 2 libpng.
Please provide: ldd /usr/local/bin/xfce4-appearance-settings | grep png
If you see libpng15 and libpng, try to reinstall: x11/libxfce4menu (maybe need bump version).

ps: looks like you should rebuild all related with png, in my case it were libxfce*, pidgin(libpurle) etc...
 
M1cRO said:
I have the same problem, seems it related with 2 libpng.
Please provide: ldd /usr/local/bin/xfce4-appearance-settings | grep png
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answer is :
Code: 
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/local/lib/libpng16.so.16 (0x805a3e000)

edit : updating my system now, will see if that change anything...
 
nope :( it's worse... when I exit xfce4 and return to the shell I can't enter any characters in it, forced to use ctrl-alt-del to quit :-(
 
Hello :)

I've tried something: created a new basic user, logged in and launched startxfce4 and... the fresh desktop opened is complete and works fine as intended!

I think some config preferences have been messed up on the "root" side of it, where could it be?
 
Helllo all ^^)

I've finally managed to return the xfce4 desktop behaviors to normal functionality by killing all saved prefs of the desktop manager.

Really don't know what had gone wrong with it nor why but now I've my icons and backdrop back and no more core dumps.

Thanks for the help.
 
voxel said:
Helllo all ^^)

I've finally managed to return the xfce4 desktop behaviors to normal functionality by killing all saved prefs of the desktop manager.

Really don't know what had gone wrong with it nor why but now I've my icons and backdrop back and no more core dumps.

Thanks for the help.
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It will be great if you list the files or directories you removed to reset it back.
I have the same issue, after I installed tilda from ports.

Till then I was using only the binary packages and everything was working fine, however, after installing tilda, xfdesktop broke :(
Tilda errors out so I removed it.
 
Hello mzs ^^)

XFCE4 prefs are saved in root/.config/xfce4/desktop/ , that folder is hidden so you'll have to open xfe in root mode and tick the "left(or right)panel/show hidden files" menu item to see it.

to reset your xfdesktop just delete all files in that folder root/.config/xfce4/desktop/ then reboot.

the next time you launch startxfce4 or startx all its features should come back, btw it's possible you'll have to set your background prefs again to see your favourite background and/or hide some of the hard drives icons on the desktop.

^^)
 
Thank you!

In my case I had to remove the directories under a normal user's home directory.
I did this from the terminal, now my desktop is back again. :)

I spent like two days reinstalling and removing xorg, xfce, pango and other packages.
 
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