Created attachment 4341 Image of the settings manager window I've compiled, on my xubuntu 11.10, xfce4-settings from git and I can't see any icons in the setting manager. If I launch the old xfce4-settings 4.8.3 from xubuntu 11.10 I can see all the icons. What can be the problem?
A couple of things: Errors printed when you run xfce4-settings-manager in a terminal? Is /usr/local/etc/xdg in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS? Do you have local copies of the desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications? Or possibly duplicates of old desktop settings files in a directory with a higher prio? You can enforce that with $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
No errors on terminal usr/local/etc/xdg is in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ~/.local/share/applications I have only 1 file named mimeapps.list. Maybe this is the problem. What are the desktop files that needs to be there so that I can try to copy them? Thanks for the assistence
No mimeapps.list is not used for this. Please search the system for "xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop", maybe there are old copies floating around? I changed the categories so if old files are read, this gives problems. Possibly the same for "xfce-settings-manager.menu" You can also test this by running XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share xfce4-settings-manager The strange thing is that the category names are shown, so that means /something/ is found.
"xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop" I've found it in /usr/local/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop and /usr/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop. Tried to rename both and compile xfce4-settings again but I get the same as in previous image "xfce-settings-manager.menu" I've found it only in /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-settings-manager.menu. If I rename it and start xfce4-settings-manager, I lose the categories. If can be of any help, I attach this file By running the following command I get the same as in previous image plus this output in the command line: LANG=C XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share xfce4-settings-manager (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'preferences-desktop'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases ** (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): WARNING **: Pixbuf theme: Cannot load pixmap file /usr/share/themes/greybird/gtk-2.0/resize_grip.png: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/themes/greybird/gtk-2.0/resize_grip.png' (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed (xfce4-settings-manager:31673): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
Created attachment 4346 xfce-settings-manager.menu
Duplicates of the .desktop files is most likely blocking them from being included in the menu. If you reverse the order of the paths in XDG_DATA_DIRS it might work. XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share xfce4-settings-manager.
Or "/usr/share:/usr/local/share" I'm not sure which of the two gives a higher prio to /usr/local/share
No luck. Only thing that changes by switching the two paths is the "Others" category being displayed or not in the list. I've also tried with "XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share xfce4-settings-manager" but nothing changes. In usr/local/share/applications I have a bunch of desktop files named *-settings.desktop
This looks more like a system config problem, but whether it was or wasn't, is it still reproducible these days? In other words, do you still have this bug?
(In reply to Robby Workman from comment #9) > This looks more like a system config problem, but whether it was or wasn't, > is it still reproducible these days? In other words, do you still have this > bug? Now I'm running 14.10 and this problem is gone. I can't tell if the problem persist in 11.10
Okay, thanks! Closing...