On Friday 17 November 2006 18:14, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 21:55, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 17:34, John Andersen wrote:
However: When I compare two machines that are both running 10.1 the working one has a ton of icons in these directory structures and the failing ones only seem to have a very few. (Just enough to trick me into believing they were there, but not enough to fill out all the tool bars).
Nope, its not that the icons are missing. Comparing the same directories on the two different machines shows the exact same number of files in each of the default.kde subdirectories.
The icons are there, but kde is not finding them.
Since you've upgraded KDE, have you checked to see if rpm created a "kdmrc.rpmnew" under /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm"?
Hint 1: make a backup copy of your existing kdmrc before doing anything else
Hint 2: if replacing kdmrc with kdmrc.rpmnew doesn't work, study the README in the same directory for instructions on generating a new 'from scratch' kdmrc
Hint 3: To test each change while troubleshooting, don't just log out and log back in (which theoretically restarts X each time) because in my experience it is not always reliable. Instead, log out of your session (lands you back at the login greeter), do Ctl+Alt+F1 to switch to tty1 console, log in as root, issue 'init 3' to drop to runlevel 3, wait and hit 'Enter' to regain a prompt then issue 'init 5 && exit' to return to runlevel 5.
Well it was worth a try, but no joy. No png icons work anywhere in the system even though the png files are there in the correct place an the correct numbers. I found one icon scheme that does work (mono) because it is composed only of .svgx files (Scalable Vector graphics). Its not a totally complete set (no try icons) but it does work. The problem is system wide, all users including root, including newly created users, so the files are there, and they can be viewed with any of the capable viewers (they are not corrupted), the icon-theme.cache was rebuilt with the fresh re-install, so its got to be a system wide setting or something. Been at it most of the day. Its Beer-O-Clock. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen